The poplar tribe fhall be confidered next. 

 They are numerous, and fome of them pic- 

 turefque. They are at leaft ftately trees : but 

 their thin quivering foliage is neither adapted 

 . o catch maffes of light, like that of the elm ; 

 nor has it the hanging lightnefs of the afh. 

 Its chief ufe in landfcape is to mix as a variety 

 in contraft with other trees. 



Within thefe few years the Lombardy-pop- 

 lar, which graces the banks of the Po, has 

 been much introduced in Englifh plantations. 

 It feems to like a Britifh foil 3 and it's youth is 

 promifing : but I have never feen it in full 

 maturity. It's conic form as a deciduous tree, 

 is peculiar. Among evergreens we find the 

 fame character in the cyprefs ; and both trees 

 in many fituations have a good effect. The 

 cyprefs often, among the ruins of ancient 

 Rome, breaks the regularity of a wall, or a 

 pediment by it's conic form : and the poplar on 

 the banks of the Po, no doubt has the fame effect 

 among it's. deciduous brethren, by forming the 

 apex of a clump : tho I have been told that, 

 in it's age, it lofes it's fhape in fome degree a 

 and fpreads more into a head. The oldeft 



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