DECIDUOUS TREES 101 



soil of a cleft in a great rock, and thrive therein most 

 luxuriantly. There is a kind of honey locu st (gleditschia 

 inermis) that possesses the great advantage of being 

 t homless. 



We have already spoken of the poplars as affording an 

 instance of a quick-growing family that is apt to lose its 

 beauty, and even die, in a comparatively short space of 

 time, but we are not prepared to give up its use, because 

 groups of the different species may be so disposed as to 

 produce an immediate effect that will last for a time, and 

 can then be replaced by neighboring and more permanent 

 trees. The period of the beauty and vigor of^ popjars 

 may be ^extended by re moving dead or d iseased wood as 

 soon as the smallest amount of it appears. The C arolina 

 poplars and balsain__poplars are g ood kin ds, and free 

 from the objection of suckering, which has so greatly 

 injured the reputation of the silver-leaved species. 



For landscase effect , the Lombardy po plar is the most 

 valuable, pointing, as it does, its spire-like form far 

 a bove the general mass of surrounding foliage. Pruning 

 away dead and diseased wood is especially valuable in the 

 case of this tree, because it tends to renew a fresh, 

 marked \igor of growth. At the corners of sm alLplaces, 

 on either side of a gate , or along the side_or_back of the 

 h ouse , the Lombardy poplar p roduces e x cellent effect in 

 the landscape, but it should a lways be associated _with 

 Iqrgp gVimhg c^v otliprjhrppc;^ as the lower portions of it 

 are apt to be bare and uninteresting. 



Many of our native trees are both beautiful and well 

 suited for the la^\^l, and ranking high among these we 

 find the };^llow;:WoodJ)f.£entucl^, virgilia lutea, or, more 

 properly, cladrastis tinctoria. It is a charming tree, 

 slow in growth and of beautiful, r efined natur e. Every 



