112 THE FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
there being only a few inches of the outer portions of the 
tree remaining, the inside having decayed. 
PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS (Buttonwood, Sycamore).— 
Leaves angularly sinuate-lobed or toothed; seeds produc- 
ed in a brittly, coriaceous nutlet, containing but one seed, 
which is ripe in autumn; the bark on old and young 
branches green, but separating in patches, leaving large 
white spots; tree of large size; wood fibrous, running 
in various directions and so interlaced that it can not 
be divided; wood not considered of much value, though 
sometimes sawed into planks and timber; may be readily 
propagated by cuttings, of either one or two year old 
wood ; common throughout the Northern States. 
Poputus. (Poplar.) 
There are a large number of species of the Poplar, none 
of which possess any particular merit as timber trees, un- 
less it be that of rapid growth. Some of the species are 
used for ornamental trees, and have been since the days 
of the ancient Romans, when one of the species was so 
extensively planted in the streets and suburbs of Rome 
that it was called the People’s tree, hence the name Pop-- 
uli or Populus. All the species and varieties are readily 
grown from cuttings, either of one-year-old wood or that 
which is three or four years old. Young branches or 
suckers of eight or ten feet long may be set in rows where 
they are wanted, and if the soil is kept moist, they will 
take root, and in this way quite a forest or hedge may be 
produced in one or two years; they prefer a moist soil, 
but will ¢row in a very dry ove. 
