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the deeply lobed leaves is dark, dull green, while 

 the under surface is almost snowy white. Such 

 emphatic trees as this should generally be par- 

 tially obscured by planting them amongst other 

 trees, so that they appear to mix with the other 

 foliage; or else they should be seen at some dis- 

 tance. Other varieties of the common white pop- 

 lar or abele are occasionally useful, although most 

 of them sprout badly and may become a nuisance. 

 But the planting of these immodest trees is so 

 likely to be overdone that I scarcely dare recom- 

 mend them, although, when skilfully used, they 

 may be made to produce most excellent effects. 

 If any reader has a particular fondness for trees 

 of this class (or any others with woolly -white 

 foliage) and if he has only an ordinary city lot or 

 farm -yard to ornament, let him reduce his desires 

 to a single tree, and then if that tree is planted 

 in the interior of a group of other trees, no 

 harm can result ! 



However much the planter may plan for imme- 

 diate effects, the beauty of trees and shrubs comes 

 with maturity and age, and this beauty is often 

 delayed, or even obliterated, by shearing and ex- 

 cessive heading -back. At first, bushes are stiff 

 and erect, but when they obtain their full charac- 

 ter they droop or roll over to meet the sward. 

 Some bushes make mounds of green much sooner 

 than others which may be even closely related. 

 Thus the common yellow- bell, ForsytMa viridis- 



