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ARDORICLLTURE 



CANAI- AND I'OPLARS, SUBURBS OF SALT I.AKK CITY. 



The Lombardy Poplar. The Italian Tree a Favorite in Utah. 



Throughout the valley of Utah, along 

 the borders of the Great Salt Lake, the 

 Jourdan river, Utah Lake of fresh water, 

 and everywhere throughout the irrigated 

 portion of the state, is seen the long lines 

 of tall, stately Poplars from Lombardy. 

 They surround the fields of almost every 

 ranch, and line the streets of Salt Lake 

 City. They form, even more than the 

 Temple and Tabernacle, the unique ap- 

 pearance to which the desert city has at- 

 tained. Provo and other towns have 

 large numbers of Poplars, but not to the 



extent to which they have been planted 

 in Salt Lake City. 



Nowhere in America is the Lombardy 

 Poplar so generally used, nor does it 

 succeed elsewhere as in Utah. The trees 

 are so easily grown from cuttings and 

 their marvelous growth, where water is 

 supplied in unstinted measure, as along 

 the many ditches which meander each 

 street of the city and irrigate every farm, 

 together with the peculiar effect upon an 

 arid, treeless land, has made them the 

 favorite with all of Utah's population. 



