126 Woodland fine in colour 



all cuttings are against us for the woodland; but the 

 facility of increase from cuttings is so easy that it is 

 difficult to get them otherwise. 



Poplars. The Poplars of Europe and North America 

 give us clouds of soft colour in the autumn, and are 

 also beautiful in the budding and early-leafing stages. 

 The White and Grey Poplars of Europe are distinct in 

 colour. Some of the kinds are little planted yet, such 

 as P. trichocarpa, y^hich. also gives fine colour at different 

 seasons, as do the American Poplars, the Black Poplar, 

 and our nativ Aspen. 



Ash. Among the summer-leafing trees few are finer 

 than the American and other exotic kinds of Ash, of 

 which the high value may be well suggested to us by 

 the qualities of our own. The leaves of many are fine 

 in form, and they take a good colour ; but when tried so 

 far in our land they are usually from over-transplanted 

 or worked plants in nurseries. As woodland trees they 

 deserve to be raised from seed, and sown, if possible, 

 where they are to grow. Among those that might be 

 tried are lentiscifolia, Oregona^ Mariesi, pennsylvanica, 

 and rhyncophylla. 



Beech. The greatest mass of fine woodland colour in 

 our own islands from Scotland southwards we have from 

 the Beech. The tree has produced varieties popular 

 in gardens, such as the dark-leaved forms, which we 

 must guard against overdoing, avoiding them wholly 

 where increased by grafting or any other mode save the 

 natural one. Some of these dark-leaved forms come from 

 seed, and in that case are worth planting for variety sake. 



Tiipelo-tree {Nyssa). These trees, which attain to con- 

 siderable size in North America, take on a fine colour 

 in our country, even away from the swamps and wet 



