>>>Is yours a hybrid or the old fashion kind?<<<
Mine are hybrids.
I am assuming you want a Weeping Willow. If you can find one, (best time is before they leave out) ask the owner if you can get a few cuttings - pick sections 3/8 to 3/4 in diameter - cut into pieces about 8-10 inches long and stick in ground or potting soil.
Sometimes if you don’t let them dry out, you can strip the leaves from one and still get it to root even now. Rooting hormone is not usually needed for them, as they root readily.
You can also use whips which are about 2 feet long - they give you a better start. Stakes which are about 6-8 feet can also be used for an even better head start.
Just got in from putting newspapers in the area around the green beans....Hoe once and mulch....easier than the constant hoeing.
Took dad to town this afternoon and drove him past Miss America's house—two story white farm house with the expected outbuildings. She's a real farm girl. She's a ten year four-H member as were her mother and aunt and uncle. Often won ribbon at the fair.
In the mid eighteen hundreds a large area of our county was settled by ten large Lutheran farm families from Germany. Read THE LAST FARMER for more background. John Melloncamp is following in the authors footstep. Liberal during youth and turning more conservative as he ages.
Miss America, Katie Stam, and Melloncamp are both ancestors of some of these families. They know the meaning of hard work and perseverance.