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than any other. Some of the Annerican kinds, are majestic 

 and superb trees when old, particularly the Cottonwood 

 and Balsam poplars.* One of the handsomest sorts is 

 the Silver poplar, which is much valued in our ornamental 

 plantations ; the more so, perhaps, because it is an exotic. 

 At some distance, the downy under surfaces of the leaves, 





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* There is a noble specimen of the Cottonwood, or, as it is here called, the 

 Balm of Gilead poplar, about two miles north of Newburgh, on the Hudson, 

 which gives its name to the small village (Balmville,) near it. The branches 

 cover a surface of one hundred feet in diameter, the trunk girths twenty feet, and 

 the branches stretch over the public road in a most majestic manner. (See 

 Fig. 20.) 



