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While as a class they cannot be called beautiful, yet from the 

 different kinds that can be easily grown, it is not difficult to select 

 sorts of varied form, color and foliage, that, properly arranged, 

 make very pleasing landscape effects. The timber for domestic 

 use, as for cheap fuel, cheap posts, etc., is of considerable value, 

 especially when time in growing is the great factor. Many of 

 the poplars make good wind-breaks, and some of them are very 

 g-ood shade trees. 



In enumerating their good qualities, their numerous bad 



Figj. 3. A ?-ow of ten year old Carolina Poplars a few miles from the Experiment 



Station. 



ones have not been forgotten. Several species have qualities the 

 very opposite of most of those mentioned above. Almost all of 

 them sprout badly; most of them are short lived; the female trees 

 of some species are intolerable nuisances because of their cot- 

 tony seed which every breeze scatters broadcast; their wood 

 is generally so soft that the trees are easily misshapen and 

 broken by the wind; and, lastly, the texture of the timber of 

 most of them is such that it is of little or no value for lumber. 

 Careful thought as to the desirability of planting poplars 

 will bring most tree-planters to the conclusion that where quick 



