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- Previously the islands were more numerous little aits on which osiers were grown.
- It was formerly used for the growing of osiers (basket willows, used for basketry, furniture, and cart-making).
- The island's previous names include Walnut Tree Ait and Kent's Ait and it was a site for the growing of osiers used for basket making.
- At Kineton can be seen the remains of four sets of sluice-gates, possibly used for flooding the land in the cultivation of osiers for use in basket making.
- A cripple, Cenydd was placed in a cradle made of osiers and cast into the estuary of the River Loughor (a fate that befell several early British saints) and eventually landed on Worm's Head.
- The island was a typical ait used for growing osiers added to by soil and sandy subsoil from excavation of the Stain Hill Reservoirs, creating the large hill as to the island's west.
- There are around 30 different species of trees in the park including oak, horse chestnut, sycamore and some of the best collections of willows in Lambeth, including goat willows, white willows, grey willows and osiers.
- Willows, sallows and osiers ("Salix" species) are used as food plants by the larvae (caterpillars) of a large number of Lepidoptera species including the following.
- Basic crafts, such as baskets, fish traps, wattle fences and wattle and daub house walls, were often woven from osiers or withies (rod-like willow shoots, often grown in pollards).
- The withies, or osiers, are used in basketry.
- A more particular term, "lituus alpinus", was used in 1555 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner when he published the earliest detailed description of the Alphorn: "nearly eleven feet long, made from two pieces of wood slightly curved and hollowed out, fitted together and skillfully bound with osiers".
- It is thought that "pierce" comes from "pershe", meaning osiers, perhaps because the bridge was at least partly made of osier twigs in 1050 when the name is first recorded.
- He introduced the culture of osiers and sorghum in 1854/5, and the Chinese yam in 1854.
- In an effort to stem the flooding from the river he planted German osiers, a type of willow tree in a 2-mile long dike.
- With an added adjective, the term "lituus alpinus", was used in 1555 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in the earliest published description of the Alphorn: "nearly eleven feet long, made from two pieces of wood slightly curved and hollowed out, fitted together and skillfully bound with osiers".
- Russians and other Slavic peoples have traditionally used fishing traps made of osiers. The proto-Slavic word for this type of fishing basket is reconstructed as vьrša.
- Several species and hybrid cultivars of willows (often known as osiers) are grown for withy production; typical species include "Salix acutifolia", "Salix daphnoides", "Salix × mollissima", "Salix purpurea", "Salix triandra", and "Salix viminalis".
- The Spanish "verdugado", from which "farthingale" derives, was a hoop skirt originally stiffened with esparto grass; later designs in the temperate climate zone were stiffened with osiers (willow withies), rope, or (from about 1580) whalebone.
- A series of sturdy vertical posts were first driven into the ground; these were then interlaced with horizontal osiers, as in basketwork.
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