THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. 99 



fmgle Oriental plane being injured in any part of 

 the country. 



The timber of the Plane, fo far as it is known 

 in this kingdom, is faid very much to referable 

 that of the fycamore. 



THE POPLAR. 



(Populus alba*nigra, trtfrnula, fyc.) 



Thefe are all very tall growing trees, * and are 

 either indigenous to Britain, or naturalized to 

 many parts of it. There are fome other fpecies 

 planted, and many varieties ; and they are all 

 reckoned ornamental. As ornamental trees, how- 

 ever, about the grounds of a refidence, they a^e 

 only admiflible in low, wet fituations, where they 

 luxuriate mod, and take the beft forms. In fuch 

 fituations, even the Lombardy poplar is fuffer- 

 G 2 able; 



* In the Reay wood at Castle-Howard, there are some 

 of the largest black poplars that we have ever met with. 

 One tree is twelve feet in girth, at four feet high, with a 

 stem of at least sixty feet (measurable timber), and its total 

 height about ninety. Another is as tall, and only nine inch' 

 es less in girth. They grow on the north hang of a small 

 hill; in deep, loamy soil* 



