THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. IOI 



bling Poplar, is much of the fame Duality ; but 

 feems fomewhat coarfer in the grain. We have 

 known quantities of this laft -mentioned kind pur- 

 .chafed for the making of red herring calks. 



THE SYCAMORE, or Plane-tree of Scotland. 



(Acer pseudo-platanus.} 



This is a timber tree of the firft magnitude* 

 It is highly ornamental ; and maintains its place, 

 with great flatelinefs and boldnefs of outline, in 

 the park and on the lawn. The variegated kind 

 is extremely beautiful, and is admitted in all po- 

 lifhed fcenery. The common kind is very fre- 

 quently found (landing alone, or in fmall groups, 

 about farms, cottages, mills and the like, of 

 which it is an excellent accompaniment, and a 

 protection from the chilling blaft. It is alfo very 

 frequently to be found about old ruins, and in 

 hedge-rows and divifion-rows of fields, efpecially 

 in Scotland. It is among the mod hardy of our 

 trees ; and affords more fhelter, when grown up, 

 than any other tree. It pofTefles a fmgular pro- 

 perty : it never (hows what is called a weather 

 side, even in the mofl expofed fituations, on the 

 fides of bleak hills. If it has been too clofely 

 preffed, and been mifhapen by another tree, or a 



