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BLACK POPLAR. 



the blurring effect of constant motion. The impression still remains 

 that the leaves of the Black Poplar look like so many separate dots 

 against the sky. 



A noble simplicity and restraint is the character of the tree in 

 all its parts. It has large, well-spaced buds, and heart-shaped leaves, 

 neither lobed nor divided, and standing well away from the twig on 

 long petioles. The branches ramify with unfailing regularity of system. 

 The boughs form long, sweeping curves from point to base : the 

 twigs do not hide them, and they stand out distinctly from their 

 branches, and spring from a stem marked with equal distinctness. 

 The tree is so consistent in its lack of intricacy that it is for this 

 reason as attractive as the Hawthorn is for its mazy network of 

 branches and muliplicity of forms. 



BLACK POPLAR 



