WILLOWS AND POPLARS 



chance. But on a street, where the repression 

 of pavements and sidewalks interferes with this 

 exuberance, the balsam poplar is well worth 

 planting. 



The poplars as a family are pushing and 

 energetic growers, and serve a great purpose 

 in the reforestation of American acres that have 

 been carelessly denuded of their tree cover. 

 Here the trembling aspen particularly, as the 

 commonest form of all is named, comes in to 

 quickly cover and shade the ground, and give 

 aid to the hard woods and the conifers that 

 form the value of the forest growth. 



This same American aspen, a consideration 

 of the lightly hung leaves of which has been 

 useful to many poets, is a well-known tree 

 of graceful habit, particularly abundant in the 

 forests north of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 

 and occupying clearings plentifully and quickly. 

 Its flowers are in catkins, as with the rest of 

 the family, and, like other poplars, they are in 

 two kinds, male and female, or staminate and 

 pistillate, which accounts for some troubles the 

 inexperienced investigator has in locating them. 



There is another aspen, the large-toothed 



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