Then a willow tree fell at his home in Connecticut, smashing onto his court.

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Ideally I would like to plant deep beds of greenery clouds of box, ferns, a willow tree and maybe a magnolia, with a glossy black-painted metal bench somewhere.

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One day, after a long, exhausting chase, some of Roosevelt's friends cornered an American black bear, which they tied to a willow tree, and they called upon the President to shoot it.

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This Christmas, they are planning an elaborate tree made of weeping-willow branches.

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Aspirin, for example, was originally derived from willow bark, and the anticancer drug Taxol comes from the bark of the Pacific yew tree.

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