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Lombardy Poplar in Scenery. 



have looked down from the bridge on a well-selected group of 

 round headed trees. 



The poplar, therefore, would be advantageously planted 

 wherever there is a continuance of horizontal lines ; but they 

 should be so arranged as to form a part of those lines, to 

 seem to grow out of them, rather than to break or contrast 

 with them in too abrupt a manner. In the case of a stable or 

 other agricultural building, where the principal mass extends in 

 length rather than in height, (Jig. 2.), it would be wrong to plant 



them exactly before it (tf), but they should be at the sides or 

 behind. The poplar is very generally planted before the cot- 

 tages and residences, which are to be found on the roads a few 

 miles from the metropolis ; and as forming a part of those re- 

 sidences nothing can be worse ; you may see six or eight pop- 

 lars taller than the house, obstructing its view, and overpower- 

 ing and diminishing it by their magnitude and stiffness, when 

 a few low trees mixed witJi laburnams, lilacs, &c, would be 

 so much more to the purpose, — not but the poplars are well 

 calculated to produce good effect as a whole, when the road is 

 seen in perspective ; but it is not to be supposed that general 

 effect and public ornament has been studied by individuals. 

 The poplar should also appear in all plantations and belts that 

 are made with a view to picturesque effect, (Jig. 3.), but more 



particularly, they should be introduced in a sparing but judi- 

 cious manner in all pleasure-grounds; and they are quite in- 



