80 FAMILIAR TREES 



being planted near the lawn ; but purely artistic 

 considerations make it desirable that Poplars should 

 be planted in a row at some distance from the house 

 or other point from which they are to be viewed. 



This variety is not, however, deficient in those 

 minuter beauties that repay the student of trees. 

 At the end of April or the beginning of May, when 

 most other trees are in full spring- tide verdure, the 

 little triangular leaflets come forth, on their character- 

 istically long leaf-stalks, in the charming variety of 

 golden tints, now yellow, now brown, now russet-red, 

 glinting cheerfully in the young sunbeams before they 

 decide on being a somewhat dull shade of green, to 

 which we have alluded when writing of the Black 

 Poplar ; and again in autumn, after most other trees 

 are bare, these same leaves, which have survived the 

 equinoctial gales of October, are often, in the fitful 

 sunshine of St. Luke's summer, or of that autumnal 

 after-glow that sometimes marks the latter half of 

 the month, seen bright with an almost spotlessly 

 clear lemon-yellow, or variegated perchance with a 

 green clearer than any hue they have hitherto worn. 



