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CHAP. CIII. SALICA‘CEH. PO’PULUS. 1651 
. in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, which, in 1834, were 23 ft. 
igh, after being ten years planted. The leaves are remarkable for their fine 
rich yellowish red tinge, when they first appear in spring; and for their 
large size, deep indentations, and fine glaucous green during summer: on 
which account, this poplar deserves a place in every collection as an or- 
namental tree. We consider it as a variety of P. trémula, from which it 
is not more distinct than P. Alba acerifolia is from P. Alba, or T'flia 
europe‘a grandifolia is from TJ’. e. parvifolia. Plants, in the London 
nurseries, are 2s. 6d. each; at Bollwyller, 3 francs; and at New York, 
35 cents. 
Variety. 
* P. (¢.) g. 2 péndula Michx. Flor. Bor. Amer. is said to have pendu- 
lous branches, There is a tree bearing this name in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, but its branches are not pendulous. 
% 6. P. crx‘ca Ait, The Grecian, or Athenian, Poplar. 
Bieatifcation. wt Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 407,, ed. 2., 5. p. 396. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 804.; N. Du 
am., 2. p. 185. 
The Sezes. The female is in the London Horticultural Society’s arboretum; and was, some years ago, 
in gardens at Bury St. Edmunds, and in the plantations of O. R. Oakes, Esq., at Newton, near 
that town. Jiild., in his Sp. Pi., also mentions the male as the only one that he had seen living. 
It is doubtful whether the male is in Britain. 
Engravings. N. Du Ham., 2. t. 54.; our fig. 1512.; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branch round, glabrous. Petiole compressed. Disk of 
leaf roundish-ovate, having a shallow sinus at the base, and terminating in 
an acute point, serrated with equal teeth that are adpressed, glabrous, except 
being slightly ciliated on the edge. (Willd. Sp. Pl.) 
Wild in the islands of the Archipelago. (Jdid.) Wy 
Cultivated in Britain in 1779, by Hugh Duke of SOE 
Northumberland. It flowers in March and April. : 
(Hort. Kew.) The species is not registered in 
Smith’s Prodromus of Sibthorp’s Flora Greca; so : : 
that, though named P, gre‘ca, and the Athenian ane Ci 
poplar, it does not epee to be wild in Greece; ia 
nor, notwithstanding the statement of Willdenow, Ay 
in the Archipelago. According to the Nouv. Du 
Hamel, it is stated by some to be a native of North 
America, and more particularly ofa township there , 
named Athens. The circumstance of its having 
been introduced by Hugh Duke of Northumber- 
land is favourable to this opinion; that nobleman 
having been a great importer of American ‘trees. 
It is a handsome, vigorous-growing tree, very 
interesting when in flower, from its numerous 
darkish-coloured catkins, which have the plume-like character of those 
of P. trémula, P. trépida, and P. grandidentata. The leaves, in their 
form, colour, and general aspect, resemble these of P. trépida, but are 
longer. The tissue of the bark of young trees is of a coarsish texture; 
which, by rendering its component parts obvious, makes it an eligi- 
ble subject for study to young physiologists. The pith of the young 
branches, of about 1 in. in diameter, is very small in quantity, and green. 
The capsules are upon pedicels, and these and the rachis are hairy. It is 
propagated by iayers, or by grafting on some other species of poplar; 
more particularly on P. albacanéscens. Bosc states that he has seen grafts 
produce shoots 8 ft. or 10 ft. long the first season. In the Gardener's 
Magazine, vol. iii. p. 410., is an account of a number of trees bearing the 
name of Populus grae‘ca, which were planted at Woodfield, in Monmouth- 
shire, which, after being planted ten years, averaged shoots of 3 ft. yearly. 
The writer had been induced to plant these trees by a paper on the subject, 
in the Memoirs of the Literary Society of Manchester, vol. y. Though differ- 
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