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will soon make a figure among our forest trees, it 
being equally hardy with our common birch, and 
will arrive at a much greater magnitude. This spe- 
cies will grow to be upwards of sixty feet in height. 
The branches are spotted, and more sparingly set 
on the trees than the common sorts. The leaves 
are broader, grow on long foot stalks, and add a 
dignity to the appearance of the tree; and as it is 
naturally of upright and swift growth, and arrives 
at so great a magnitude in a few years, prudence 
will direct us to let it have a share among our forest 
trees, to plant them for standards in open places, as 
well as to let them join with other trees of their own 
growth, in plantations more immediately designed 
for relaxation and pleasure.” I planted one of these 
trees nineteen years ago, and it is now forty-five 
feet six inches in height, and three feet seven inches 
in the girth. 
Tue ATHENIAN Poprar Tree, Populus 
(Graca) foliis cordaiis, glabris, bast glandulosis, re- 
mote crenatis ; petiolis compressis ; ramus teretibus. 
The Athenian Poplar is a native of the Islands 
of the Archipelago, and was first cultivated in Eng- 
land by Hugh Duke of Northumberland, in the year 
1779. Perhaps, there is no deciduous tree so beau- 
uful, or so proper for pleasure grounds, intended 
for ornament and shade, as this poplar; having 
a fine upright stem; the branches well disposed ; 
the bark smooth, and of a silvery hue, resembling 
