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Soil, Situation, §c. The Lombardy poplar will only thrive on a tolerably 
good soil, and will not attain a large size, except in a situation where to a 
good soil is joined proximity to water. In the climate of London, it grows 
with such rapidity, that care is required, when it is introduced in ornamental 
plantations, to thin it out, or cut it down, so that its form may not prepon- 
derate in the landscape. In the north of England, and in most parts of 
Scotland, it does not thrive. 
Statistics. Recorded Trees. Dr. Walker mentions a tree on the borders of a canal, near Brussels, 
which, in 15 years, attained the height of 80ft., with a trunk from 7 ft. to 8ft. in circumference. 
Another tree, at Nisbet, in Berwickshire, had, in 1795, attained the height of 60 ft. in 26 years ; with 
a trunk 6 ft. lin. in circumference at 4 ft. from the ground. The largest tree that Sir Thomas Dick 
Lauder knows of in Scotland stands on the lawn, a little below the Castle of Tarnawa, in Morayshire. 
Phillips says the most extraordinary Lombardy poplars which he had seen were on the banks of the 
Seine, near Rouen. ‘They had not been planted more than 20 years; ‘‘ yet their height is such, as to 
make it quite awful to walk in the avenues.” (Syl. Flor., vol. ii. p. 133.) We wrote to our friend, the 
Abbé Gosier of Rouen, for some account of these trees; and his answer, dated March 4th, 1837, 
states, on the authority of M. Dubreuil, Conservator des Promenades publiques, &c., that they 
grow in alluvial soil, and are 150 ft. high. A tree, planted in 1758, in the St, Peter’s Nursery, Can- 
terbury, was blown down, Mr. Masters informs us, during the hurricane of Noy. 29. 1836. The trunk 
was upwards of 5 ft. in diameter at 1ft. from the ground, and at 6ft. it was 4ft. 4in. in diameter, 
It was nearly 100 ft. in height, very symmetrically formed, and from the northern and western 
entrances to Canterbury was an object of considerable attraction. The wood of the trunk was ina 
complete state of decay, and had produced an abundance of Polyporus igniarius for several years past. 
Existing Trees In England, in the environs of London, at Ham House, Essex, it is 110 ft. high, 
with a trunk 3 ft. 10 in. in diameter ; at Gunnersbury Park, 45 years planted, it is 84 ft. high, diameter 
of the trunk 223 ft.; at Whitton, it is 115 ft. high. In Somersetshire, at Nettlecombe, 18 years old, it 
is 62ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 12 ft., and of the head 72 ft. ; in Surrey, at Walton upon 
Thames, 52 years planted, it is 110 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 8 in. : in Cambridgeshire, 
in the parish of Gamlingay, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 10 in. ; in the Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 5 ft., and of the head 30 ft.: in Denbigh- 
shire, at Llanbede Hall, 50 years planted, it is 73 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 22 ft., and of the 
head 12 ft. ; in Durham, at Southend, 18 years planted, it is 45 ft. high; in Gloucestershire, at Dodding- 
ton, it is 95ft. high, diameter of the trunk 3ft.; in Lancashire, at Latham House, 40 years planted, it is 
80 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 {t., and of the head 14 ft. ; in Leicestershire, at Donnington 
Park, 60 years planted, it is 88 ft. high: in Oxfordshire, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, it is 80 ft. 
high, the diameter of the trunk 33 ft., and of the head 18 ft. ; in the village of Great Tew are some 
trees which are 125ft. high, planted about ‘50 years ago, by a labourer who still lives near them : 
in Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole Court, 35 years old, it is 80 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft., 
and that of the head 12ft.; in Radnorshire, at Belvoir Castle, 18 years old, it is 50 ft high; in - 
Staffordshire, at Rolleston Hall, it is 88ft. high, with a trunk 22 ft. in diameter; in Suffolk, at 
Finborough Hall, 80 years planted, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft., and of the head 
80 ft.: in Warwickshire, at Coombe Abbey, 70 years planted, itis 85 ft. high, the diameter of the 
trunk 3 ft., and of the head 12 ft. : in Worcestershire, at Hagley, 9 years planted, it is 19 ft. high ; 
at Croome, 30 years planted, is 70 ft. high: in Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 60 ft. 
high ; at Knedlington, 11 years planted, it is 34 ft. high. In Scotland, in Lanarkshire, in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, 16 years planted, it is 65 ft. high; in Renfrewshire, at North Barr, 30 years planted, 
it is 70 ft. high ; in Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar Institution, 12 years planted, it 
is 26 ft; in Inverness-shire, at Cowan, 45 years planted, it is 75 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 
1ft., and of the head 12 ft. ; in Perthshire, at Taymouth, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 
1 ft. 2in., and of the head 12ft. ; in Ross-shire, at Brahan Castle, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter of 
the trunk 2 ft. In Ireland, in Galway, at Coole, it is 30ft. high, with a trunk Qin. in diameter. In 
the Isle of Jersey, in Saunders’s Nursery, 10 years planted, it is 36 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 
1 ft., and of the head 19ft. In France, at Ermenonville, in the Isle of Poplars, are several 80 ft. 
high, In Belgium, at Ghent, in the Botanic Garden, 80ft. high. In Saxony, at W6rlitz, 60 
years old, it is 60 ft. high, with a trunk 1} ft. in diameter. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English 
Garden, 25 years old, it is 45 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 12in., and of the head 10ft. In 
Prussia, at Berlin, in the Botanic Garden, 60 years old, it is 60ft. high, with a trunk 2 ft, in 
diameter. In Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza, 40 years old, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 
23 ft., and of the head 10 ft. ; at Belgiosa, near Pavia, 80 years planted, it is 70 ft. high, the, diameter 
of the trunk 2 ft. 7 in, 
Commercial Statistics. Plants, from 5ft. to 6ft. in height, are 8s. per hun- 
dred in the London nurseries ; at Bollwyller, from 50 to 60 cents each. 
% 12. P. ancuxa‘ta Ait. The angled-branched, or Carolina, Poplar. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 407., ed. 2., 5. p. 396.; Michx. Arb., 3.; North Amer. 
Sylva, 2. p. 224. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 619.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
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