BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
NOTES OF TRAVEL. IX. 
A PRECOCIOUS POPLAR BRANCH. 
(WITH ONE FIGURE) 
In the plaza at Patras, the principal commercial port of Greece, are 
anumber of poplar trees that have been recently planted out for shade. 
When I was there in March 
iking that I took a kodak 
] On 
wy mi nin g the branch 
| iewhat closely, I found 
it arose from a wound 
*h seemed to have been 
ced by some wagon 
and thi cee Poplar ts tree in Patras, Greeee, with 
i in this most pre- , | 
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