GETTING AC^AINTED WITH THE TREES 



make paper for our dally journals has turned 

 attention to several forms of the rapid -growing 

 poplar for this use. The aspen is acceptable, 

 and also the Carolina poplar, and these trees 

 are being planted in large quantities for the 

 eventual making of wood-pulp. Even today, 

 many newspapers are printed on poplar, and 

 exposure to the rays of the truth- searching 

 sun for a few hours will disclose the yellow- 

 ness of the paper, if not of the tree from 

 which it has been ground. 



Few whose eyes are turned upward toward 

 the trees have failed to note that exclamation- 

 point of growth, the Lombardy poplar. Origi- 

 nating in that portion of Europe indicated by 

 its common name, and, indeed, a botanical 

 form of the European black poplar, it is nev- 

 ertheless widely distributed in America. When 

 it has been properly placed, it introduces truly 

 a note of distinction into the landscape. Tow- 

 ering high in the air, and carrying the eye 

 along its narrowly oval contour to a skyward 

 point, it is lofty and pleasing in a park. It 

 agreeably breaks the sky-Hne in many places, 

 and is emphatic in dignified groups. To plant it 



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