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growth, or a supply of cheap wood for domestic use, is the object, 

 or where location prevents the planting- of less hardy and less 

 thrifty trees, poplars may be well set out. If too closely fol- 

 lowed, this deduction, in pioneer planting-, leads to the use 

 of poplars almost exclusively, and this we find has been the case 

 in many parts of the States of the Plains and of the Great Basin. 

 Here a mistake is made. The far-seeing- husbandman will mix 

 with the poplars the slower growing-, but far more valuable elms, 

 ashes, maples and other thrifty hardwoods, with some conifers, 



, 4. An acre block of Carolina Poplars, "four years old, from which several cords of 

 wood per annum can be taken for a number of years. 



perhaps, that he may cut out the make-shift poplars when the 

 better trees are large enough to answer his purpose. 



Carolina Poplar. (Populus deltoides Marsh.) This is the 

 Cottonwood of the States to the east of the Rocky Mountains, in 

 most of which it is a native. Nurserymen sell it as Carolina 

 Poplar, and, under cultivation, it is almost universally known by 

 this name. The tree is distinguished by its very large, triangular 

 leaves which have truncate bases, long, pointed apices, coarsely 

 toothed margins, and are thin and of a bright, glossy color. The 

 branches are comparatively large and are spreading, making an 

 open-headed tree, but are always subordinate to the central stem 

 which may be traced to the summit of the tree. It is grown 



