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is the Silver poplar, which is much valued in our orna- 

 mental plantations ; the more so, perhaps, because it is an 





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[Fig. 37. The Cottonwood.] 



exotic. At some distance, the downy under surfaces of the 

 leaves, turned up by the wind, give it very much the aspect 

 of a tree covered with white blossoms. This effect is the 

 more striking, when it is situated in front of a grouo or 



Balm of Gilead poplar, about two miles north of Newburgh, on the Hudson, 

 which gives its name to the small village (Baim^lle) near it. The branches 

 cover a surface of one hundred feet in diameter, the trunk girths twenty feet, 

 and the branches stretch over the public road in a most majestic manner. (See 

 Fig. 37.) 



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