ARBOllETUM AND IKUTICETUM 



Soil, Sitiuilio/i, i^r. 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 |)repon- 



ileratc in the landscape. In the north of England, and in most parts of 



Scotland, it does not thrive. 



Slafislics. liecordeU Tiers. Dr. Walker mentions a tree on the borders of a canal, near Brussels, 

 which, in 15 years, attained the height of 80 ft., with a trunk from 7 ft. to 8 ft. in circumference. 

 .Another tree, at Nisbet, in Berwickshire, liad, in 1~'J5, attained the height of (X)fl. in 26 years ; with 

 a trunk ft. 1 in. in circumference at 4 ft. from the ground. The largest tree that Sir Thomas Uick 

 Lauder knows of in Scotland stands on the lawn, a little below the Castle t f Tarnawa, in Morayshire. 

 I'hillips 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." {Si/l. Floy., vol. ii. p. 133.) We wrote to our friend, the 

 Abbe Gosier of Kouen, 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 l.OOft. high. A tree, planted in 1758, in the St. Peter's Nursery, Can. 

 tcrbury, was blown down, Mr. Masters informs us, during the hurricane of Nov. '29. 1836. The trunk 

 was upwards of 5 ft. in diameter at 1 ft. from the ground, and at 6ft. it was 4 ft. 4 in. in diameter. 

 It was nearly 100 ft. in height, very symmetrically formed, and from the northern and western 

 entrances to Canterbury wa.s an object of considerable attraction. The wood of the trunk was in a 

 complete state of decay, and had produced an abiuidance of Polyporus igniiirius for several years past. 

 Existing Trees In England, in the environs of London, at Ham House, Essex, it is 110 ft. higli, 

 with a trunk 3 fl. 10 in. in diameter ; at Gunnersbury Park, 45 years planted, it is 84 ft. high, diameter 

 of the trunk '2^ ft. ; at Whitton, it is 115 ft. high. In Somersetshire, at Ncttlecombe, 18 years old, it 

 is 62 fL high, the diameter of the trunk 1| ft., and of the head 7J ft. ; in Surrey, at Walton upon 

 Thames, 5'2 years planted, it is 110 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. S in. : in Cambridgeshire, 

 in the parish of Ganilingay, it is yO 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 .JO ft. : in Denbigh- 

 bliire, at Llanbede Hall, 50 years planted, it is 73 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk '2J 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 3 ft.; in Lancashire, at Latham House, 40 years planted, it is 

 80 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 14 ft. ; in Leicestershire, at Donnington 

 Park, tW years planted, it is 88 ft. high: in Oxforilshire, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, it is 80 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 3i ft., and of the head 18 ft. ; in the village of Great Tew are some 

 trees which are 125 It. high, planted about !50 years ago, by a labourer « ho still lives near them : 

 in Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole Court, 35 years old, it is 80 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft., 

 an<l that of the head 12 ft. ; in Uadnorshire, at lielvoir Castle, 18 years old, it is 50 ft high ; in 

 Staflbrdshire, at liolleston Hall, it is 88 ft. high, with a trunk 2J ft. in diameter; in .SuHblk, at 

 Einborough Hall, 80 years planted, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 

 80 ft.: in Warwickshire, at Coombe .\l)bey, 70 years planted, it is 85ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 3 ft., and of the head 12 ft. : in Worcestershire, at Hagley, 9 years planted, it is 19 t^. high ; 

 •It Croome, 30 years planted, is 70 ft. high : in Yorksliire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 60 (t. 

 high ; at Knedlington, 11 years plinted, it is 31ft, 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. 2 in., and of the head 12 ft. ; in Ross^shire, at Brahan Castle, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 2 ft. In Ireland, in (iaiway, at Coole, it is 30tl. high, with a trunk 9 in. in diameter. In 

 the Isle of Jersey, in Saunders's Nursery, 10 years planted, it is 36 It. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 1 ft., and of the head 19 ft. In Prance, at Ermenonville, in the Isle of Poplars, are several 80 ft. 

 high. In Belgium, at Ghent, in the Botanic Garden, 80 ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, 60 

 years old, it is (iO It. high, with a trunk 1 J ft. in diameter. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English 

 Garden, 25 years old, it is 45 ft. high, the di.amcter of the trunk 12 in., and of the head loft. In 

 Prussia, at Berlin, in the Botanic Garden, (iO years old, it is 60 ft. high, with a trunk 2 ft. in 

 diameter. In Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza, 4(1 years old, it is iK) ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 2i ft , ami of the head 10 ft. ; at Belglosa, near Pavia, 80 years planted, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter 

 of the trunk 2 It. 7 in. 



Comnicrcial Sifitistic)!. Plants, from .5 ft. to Gft. in height, are 8*. per hun- 

 dred in the London nurseries; at BoUwyller, from 50 to GO cents each. 



5 12. P. ANGULA^TA Ait. The angled-A^vrwr//*'^, or Carolina, Poplar. 



hU-ulificalion. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 407., cd. 2., .5. p. .396. ; Michx. Arb., 3. ; North Amer. 

 Sylva, 2. p. 224. ; Pursh El. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 61y.; Lodd. Cat., cd. 1836. 



