It is, however, the plantations of withy or osier that are most important.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
This takes place early in the spring, when the forest trees first begin to show their buds; the long, withy ends of the branches to turn green; when the wild strawberry, and other herbage of the sheltered woodlands, put forth their tender and tinted leaves; and the daisy and the primrose peep from under the hedges.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
He was an old man, as thin and bent as a withy branch, with a face seamed and wrinkled, like his familiar parchment, with the like spots; his dark, keen gray eyes, which looked out from under his shaggy eyebrows, like stars in a cloudy sky.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice