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Munich, shows their use in varying the margin of plantations. These examples 
may serve to show how easy it is, by means of the Lombardy poplar, to add 
tothe effect of a landscape, or to destroy the harmony of its different parts. 
In short, the Lombardy poplar, like the weeping willow and birch, is a most 
dangerous tree in the hands of a planter who has not considerable knowledge 
and good taste in the composition of landscape. We have been induced to 
enlarge on the subject more than we should have done, from seeing the 
frequent misapplication of the tree in the neighbourhood of London, as well 
as its good effects in various instances. We should like to see it much more 
common in towns, and in churchyards and cemeteries, and much less frequent 
in suburban gardens. In the grounds of extensive residences in the country, 
it ought to be sparingly introduced, unless the object be to recall the idea of 
the metropolis. gee et 
The suitableness of the Lombardy poplar for planting in towns and cities 
arises not only from its narrow form and vertical direction, but, also, from its 
nature; which, like-its congener the Populus nigra, admits of its thriving 
even among coal smoke, where most other trees would die, or become stunted 
and diseased. The elevation of the tree is also favourable for inviting and 
protecting singing-birds, in proof of which, a writer in the Magazine of Natural 
History (vol.i. p. 418.) observes that, in the towns of America, “ the song of 
the Baltimore oriole (Oriolus baltimorus) is little less remarkable than his 
fine appearance, and the ingenuity with which he builds his nest. His notes 
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