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it may be mentioned here with propriety. It is a native of all 

 this part of the West. 



The trees shown in the cut have been transplanted fourteen 

 years, and are as fine specimens of the species as are often 

 found, the tree seldom attaining- so great a size as these. The 

 habit of growth is uprig-ht and somewhat pyramidal. The 

 leaves in outline are somewhat like those of the willows, thoug-h 

 larg-er and more lance-shaped, the leaf margins are finely 

 toothed, and the color is a clear, soft green. The Narrow- 

 leaved Cottonwood deserves to be planted much more than does 

 the oftener found Aspen Poplar, especially if the trees can be 

 planted in g-ood rich soil. It is not, however, of nearly so much 

 worth as are some of the preceding sorts. 



RUSSIAN POPLARS. 



In recent years a number of poplars have been introduced 

 into America from Russia, several of which are hig-hly recom- 

 mended for the cold and wind-swept Western and North- 

 western States, as well as for the hot and severely dry parts of 

 the country to the south of the above regions. Professor S. B. 

 Oreen,of the Minnesota Experiment Station, in bulletin 9 of 

 that Station; Professor L. H. Bailey, in Bulletin 68 of Cornell, 

 New York, Experiment Station, and Professor J. L. Budd,in 

 various publications of the Iowa Experiment Station, have given 

 attention to these poplars, and what they have written concern- 

 ing- them, is well worth careful reading- by the tree-planters of 

 Utah. Unfortunately but two of these poplars are found in our 

 collection. I have followed Bailey as to the scientific names of 

 these. No record remains as to where the trees on our grounds 

 were obtained, but I suspect they came from the Iowa Experi- 

 ment Station. The following- are the two: 



Siberian Poplar. {Populus bahamifera intermedia Loud.) 

 This tree, as it grows here, is of close but rather spread- 

 ing- habit. The leaves, in texture and shape, somewhat re- 

 semble those of the Narrow-leaved Cottonwood, common in 

 this State and described above, their outline being- a little more 

 oval, however; they are rather long 1 , oval-pointed, thick and 

 leathery, finely toothed, white beneath and with a yellowish 

 ting-e on the new wood. It is a pretty tree, has hard, strong- 

 wood; is very resistant of drouth and of extremes of heat and 



