410 The Athenian Poplar. 



£ s. d. 



Digging, trenching, and planting Poplar cuttings - - 15 O 



Compound interest on 15/. for thirty years, at 5 per cent. 65 16 



Rent, 30 years, at 20s. per acre, with interest at 5 per cent. 66 1 8 6 



£145 14 6 



At the end of thirty years there will remain, allowing for 

 thinnings, 500 trees, containing on an average 20 ft. of 

 timber each, which is worth at least Is. 6d. per foot, making 

 the value of the trees 30s. each ; but suppose them worth 

 only 205. each, then there remains 354/. 5s. 6d. ( profit, or 

 nearly seven times the value of the land, reckoning it worth 

 50/. per acre ; 



The Lombardy Poplar is the more valuable for timber, but 

 the Black Italian is the quicker grower : either sort will grow 

 freely from cuttings of one year old shoots. 



If you think the above worthy a place in your excellent 

 Magazine, I shall feel much obliged by your inserting it. 



I am, Sir, &c. C. F. W. 



Fazelg, Staffordshire, Nov. 4. 1826. 



Art. VII. On the Athenian Poplar, Vopulus grczca as a 

 Timber Tree. By John H. Moggridge, Esq., of Wood- 

 field. 



Sir, 

 Reading, many years ago, in the first part of the fifth 

 volume of The Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Manchester, an account of a tree, by Charles White, 

 Esq. F.R.S., which interested me exceedingly, I endeavoured 

 to procure some plants of the kind, called by Mr. White the 

 Athenian Poplar, Populus grse v ca, (foliis cordatis, glabris, basi 

 glandulosis, remote crenatis; petiolis compressis ; ramis tere- 

 tibus : leaves heart-shaped, smooth, with glands at the base, 

 remotely notched ; foot-stalks compressed ; branches cylindri- 

 cal,) of many of the nurserymen in and about town, without 

 success. About twelve years since, however, I became pos- 

 sessed of a few trees of this sort, the original of which came, 

 I believe, from Alnwick. It not being to be propagated by cut- 

 tings, or at least not with any certainty, it was some time before 

 I could much increase the number of my plants. This having 

 now succeeded in doing, and having also many trees becoming 

 of considerable size, besides having sent a number to various 

 friends in different parts of the country, and being now also 



