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JOURNAL OF HOBTIOULTUBB AND OOTTAGB GARDENER. 



[ May C, 1875. 



your plantation. It is quite true that these two Poplars usually 

 grow largest in moist soils, but they are cosmopolitan ; they will 

 thrive in almost any climate and any soil. We have seen both 

 of them growing as large and as handsomely formed on a dry 

 calcareous soil as the Black Poplar repieseated in the accom- 



panying engraving. Yon may easily discern without any 

 danger of being deceived which is an Aspen, not only by its 

 leaves, but more certainly still by its inflorescence, of which we 

 now publish an engraving. The leaves of the Aspen are 

 roundish ovate, the edge slightly wavy and toothed, downy 



TvJ. 84. — Black poplar. 



when young, but quite smooth when full grown. The leaves 

 of the Black Poplar are deltoid-pointed, toothed, with glands 

 ftt the base of the teeth, and always smooth on both surfaces. 

 We add a few notes relative to each species. 



PoFULCs TRE5IULA, the Trcmbjing-leaved Poplar or Aspen, is 

 a native of most pirts of the British Islands, and is described 

 by all our earliest herbalists, bat by none in such scandalous 

 terms as by old Gerarde, all of whose female relatives must 



have been scolds, he says it " may be called Tremble, consider- 

 ing it is the matter whereof women's tongues were made, which 

 seldom cease wagging." The continuous tremulous motion 

 of the leaves arises from the even bilancing of their'discs, and 

 the length and slonderness of thoir footstalks. Its popular 

 name is dorived from the Anglo-Saxon, and refers to that 

 motion. JEpse was its Anglo-Saxon name, and the same 

 word is in thai language synonymous with our " tremulous." 



