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and northern Asia and can withstand the cold of a Boston winter. Garden catalogs refer to a Japanese

willow with almost black catkins (Salix melanostachys). The novelty of this variety would be hard pressed to rival the popularity of the pussy willow familiar to us- all.

Memories of the animal softness of those buds linger from childhood, along with a fourth-grade recollection of a girl named Charlotte who somehow stuck one up her nose and had to be taken to the doctor. But the risks are small of this happening again, and a childhood with no pussy willows at all would be a sad alternative.

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