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of value except for shade, and it but poorly served this pur- 

 pose, because of a scarcity of small branches, the straggling- 

 growth of the larger ones, and the sparsity of its foliage. Its. 



5 -A fifteen-ye tr old Silver Poplar standing in a Logan door-yard. 



ever obtrusive suckers make it a perpetual nuisance in a door- 

 yard; and its branches are whipped about and broken by every 

 gale of wind. 



The Silver Poplar may be distinguished from several of its. 



