This stripping of the osiers is a most busy time in the neighbourhood of the large plantations-almost like hop-picking-for men, women, and children can all help.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
When the people of the place, the squire and keepers and others who have an interest in the reeds and osiers, fall to abusing them on account of the damage they do, I put my fingers in my ears.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The mounds in the angle where the brooks join enclose a large space planted with osiers, and inside the hedges all round the mead there is a wide, deep ditch, always full of slowly moving water: so that the field is really surrounded by a double moat; and in one corner, in addition, there is a pond hidden by maple thickets from within, and intended for the use of cattle in the adjoining field.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies