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THE POPLAR. 



at Rome " the tree of the people " (arbor populi), a circum- 

 stance which brought it into notoriety during the French 

 Revolution. 



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Four species are indigenous to Great Britain, and many 

 others have been introduced, and are now extensively cul- 

 tivated. Of these last a short notice will suffice, although 

 one of them, the tall Lombardy Poplar, is probably more 

 generally known than any of the native kinds. 



