TREES 



and others having begun to die at the top. 

 When a branch dies it should be sawed off 

 immediately and the place given a coat of 

 thick paint; the tree is then likely to put 

 forth a new branch. But the Lombardy 

 poplar grows so tall and slender that should 

 a branch die near the top ten years after 

 planting, it would be difficult to get at it 

 to cut it away. On our own place, settled 

 by a Huguenot some hundred and fifty 

 years ago, there are magnificent Lombardy 

 poplars growing about an old family bury- 

 ing ground, and it is a fancy of mine, that 

 they were planted by the original settler 

 in memory of the poplars of the France he 

 had left in his youth. These trees are only 

 now beginning to die. To continue the old 

 Huguenot love for the trees, I have recently 

 set out a row ten feet apart and three hun- 

 dren and fifty feet long on the upper side of 

 the gardens, and hope they may be exempt 

 from the fate of the modern poplar and as 

 long-lived as their predecessors on the farm. 

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