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lands; and laftly, thofe on the ftif clay lands. | 
which, ‘although they have made pretty good 
progrefs, are yet the worft of all. Having a few 
plants left after the drained part was planted, 
and having heard it frequently afferted, as well 
as feen it fupported by many authors, that they 
would fucceed in the wetteft places, I put them 
into the adjacent ground, which had not been 
drained, for the purpofe of experiment—They 
feemed to ftrike tolerably well in the firft year; 
but in the fummer of the next, they grew fickly 
and turned yellow—I ordered a drain to be cut 
around them in the winter of that year—This 
had the defired effect, for the following {pring 
they regained their former healthy hue, but 
the leaves were confiderably fmaller than in the 
others, and the plants much lefs, both in height 
and thicknefs; a fure proof that they will not 
thrive, or indeed live long, where the fituation 
is too wet. Of the kinds thus planted, in the 
fame fituations, the white and black popiar grew 
the beft; and on every account I prefer them, 
particularly the former.—It is fcarcely poffible 
to enumerate the many excellencies of this tree. 
To its valuable quality of adapting itfelf to fo 
many different foils and fituations, may be added 
the eafe with which it is propagated. If the 
fide-fhoots be taken from the parent tree, planted 
jn the ground, and defended from the bite of 
cattle, 
