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AKBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



of the trunk 3. ft, and of thu head ;T7 ft. j In Monmouthshire, at Dowlau House, 10 years planted, 

 it is 2()tl. high; in Worcestershire, at Croonie, ii years planted, is Wilt, high, the diameter of 

 the trunk '.'Oin., and of the head 20 ft. In Scotland, in the Experimental Garden, Invcrleith, 'J years 

 planted, it is iii ft. high ; in Berwickshire, at the Hirsel, 1.5 years planted, it is 44 ft high ; in Lanark, 

 shire, in the (jlasgow ISotanic Ciarden, If! years planted, it is (iU ft. high ; in Koxburghshire, 

 near Hawick, one tree, Si) years planted, has a clear trunk of 55 ft., which girts 6 ft. 2 in., and con. 

 tains l.'jOft. of timber; another tree, 03 years planted, has a clear trunk of 55ft., with a main 

 girt of (i ft. II in., and contains KHlt of timber; in Argyllshire, at Toward Castle, 15 year* 

 planted, it is Sli It. high ; in Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar Institution, 12 year* 

 j>lanted, it is 40ft high; in Perth.shire, in Dickson and TurnbuH's Nursery, 65 years planted. 

 It is 7o It. high, diameter of the trunk 2^(1., an<l of the head 4^ ft. In Ireland, in the Glasnevin 

 liotanic Garden, 5 years planted, it is l(i It. high. In .\ustria, at Vienna, in Kosrnthal's Nursery, 

 l(i years old, it is .i'J It. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head L'T It. In llavaria, 

 at Munich, in the English Garden, 30 years planted, it is 5oft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 20 in., and of the head 15 ft. 



i 11. 7^ iastigi.\'ta. The fa.stigiatc, w Lowiflw/y, Poplar. 



Jdcntificaliun. Desf. Hist. Arb , t. 2. p. 4<i5. 



Syiumi/mcs. P. dilatata Ait. Hart. Kcw., ed. 1., 3. p. 406., ed. 2., 5. p. ."JgG., Willd. Arb., 229., Sp. 

 PI., 4. p. 804., Sproig. Syst. /V/j., 2. p. V44. ; /'. nigra itftlica I)u Hot Ilarhk., 2. p. 141. ; P. itfelica 

 yicCHch lyeissfiist , 79. ; /'. itaiica dilatata H'illd. ; P. pyramid^ta Hoif. ; P. pannonica Jncq. ; 

 P. itaiica var. carolim^nsis Biirgsdurf ; Cypress Poplar, Turin Poplar, Po Poplar; Peuplier d'ltalie, 

 Peuplier pyramidal, p>\ ; Lombardischc Pappel, Italianisclie Pai)i)el, Ger. ; Pioppo Cypresso, /laL 



The Sexes. Plants of the male are plentiful in England. 'I'he female is known to be extant in Lom- 

 bardy, whence we have received dried specimens and seeds in November, 1836. (See Card. Mag., 

 vol. xii.) M. C. A. Fischer, inspector of the University Botanic Garden, Giittingen, found, in 

 1827, a single plant of the female, after having many years before sought fruitlessly for it, among 

 many thousands of plants around Guttingen. (See Gard. Mag., vol. vi. p. 419, 420.) 



Engravings. Jaume St Hilaire ; our figs. 1519, 1520. ; and the plates in our last Volume. In 

 fig. 1520., a represents the female catkins with the blos.^otns expanded ; b, the female catkins with 

 seeds ripe ; c, a portion of the female catkin of the natural size ; d, a single flower of the natural 

 size ; and e, a single flower magnilied. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. A very distinct kind, having the form of the cypress tree, 

 from its branches being gathered together about the stem. (Willd.) Petiole 

 compressed. Disk of leaf deltoid, wider tlian long, crcnulated in the whole 

 of the edge, even the base; glal)rous u[)on both surfaces. {Ait. Ilort. Kew., 

 and Sj)rciig.) Leaves in tiie bud involutcly folded. A tree, growing to 

 the height of from 100 ft. to 120 ft., and sometimes to 150 ft. Introduced 

 from Italy into Britain about 1738, and lowering ia March and April. 

 (ylif. Hort. Kcw.) 



Description, Sfc. The Lombardy poplar is readily distinguisiied from all 

 other trees of this genus by its tall narrow form, and by the total absence of 

 liorizontal branches. The trimk is twisted, and dee[)ly furrowed ; and the 

 wood, which i.s small in quantity in proportion to the 

 height of the tree, is of little worth or duration, being 

 seldom of sucli dimensions as to admit of its being sawn 

 up into boards of a useful width. The leaves are very 

 similar to those of P. nigra, and the female catkins to 

 those of P. monilifera; tlie male catkins resemble those 

 of P. nigra, and have red anthers, but are considerably 

 more .slender. One difterence between P. fastigiata and 

 /•*. nigra is, tiiat the former produces suckers, though not 

 in any great abundance; wiiile tiie latter rarely produces 

 any. P. fastigiata, also, in tiie climate of London, |)rQ- 

 trudes its leaves eight or ten days sooner tiian P. ni^l•a. 

 Tiie male catkins of P. fastigiata, wetted and laid upon 

 paper, stain it of a deep green. The rate of growtli of 

 P. fastigiata, wiien planted in a loamy soil, near water, 

 is very rapid. In the village of (ireat Tew, in Oxford- 

 shire, a tree, |)lanted by a man who, in IH.'ij, was still 

 living in a cottage near it, was I'^j ft. high, having been 

 planted about 30 years. The Lombardy poplar is but of 

 short din-ation ; for, though a tree from one of the original 

 cuttings brought home by Lord Hochford still exists in a vigorous state at 

 Purser's Cross, yet the trees at Blenheim, and other places,' planted about 

 the same time, or a few years afterwards, are in a state of ilecav. 



Gcnuraphij, llistori/, t^V. The Lombardy poplar is considered, by Signer 

 Manetti and others, as wild in Italy, particularly in Lombardy, on the banks 

 of the Po; because it has been observed tliat, when that river overflows its 



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