salicetumn.
/salɪˈsiːtəm/ A plantation of willows, esp. a collection of different species and varieties of willow.
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1776 A. Hunter Evelyn's Silva xx. 252 In order to raise a Salictum, or a plantation of Willows for timber, the ground must be dug or plowed; and the cuttings for this purpose should be of the last year's shoot.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum I. i. 129 Woburn Abbey, where a salicetum, or salictum..was planted in 1825.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum III. 1477 A Salictum is the only scene in which a complete collection of willows can be displayed to advantage.
1853 C. G. B. Daubeny Oxford Bot. Garden (ed. 2) 16 Salicetum. On the opposite side of the garden outside of the walls, and bordering upon the river, there existed a few years ago a tolerably good collection of Willows.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 422/1 Mr. William Scaling..cultivates a salictum of about 100 acres.
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 482/1 The most extensive English willow plantation or salicetum..of the present day.
1926 Nat. Hist. Oxford District 73 Many interesting Willows which were formerly grown in the Salicetum in the Botanic Gardens.
1952 G. Taylor Victorian Flower Garden x. 153 The Willow garden, or salicetum, as it was called, slightly antedates the pinetum.
1972 S. C. Warren-Wren Willows ii. 32 A salictum should be a sizeable area of ground set aside for the express purpose of growing a fully representative group of willows.
1972 S. C. Warren-Wren Willows ii. 33 It may be considered wise to have two salicta.
1978 A. J. Huxley Illustr. Hist. Gardening ix. 307 The numerous species of Salix were gathered into salicetums or sally gardens.
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