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THE GREY POPLAR. 



also resembles the White Poplar, though it is not so tall a tree. The 

 leaves on the suckers especially possess the same pointed, shape, and 

 are nearly as white on the underside and as soft from their coating 

 of wool. The leaves on the tree itself bear much likeness to those 

 of the Aspen, and when fully developed are, like them, destitute of 

 the white coating on the underside. They are, however, less sus- 

 ceptible to movement by light winds, for the long foot-stalks, curved 

 in the wav peculiar to Poplars, on which they hang, are shorter and 

 rounder in proportion than those of the other tree. The young 

 leaves are not folded in half, or creased like bellows when in bud, 

 as is the case with so many trees, but rolled up in a form which 

 they retain when they first break from the bud-covering. Their 

 autumn colouring is an inconspicuous yellow, and they are often 

 blotted with dark marks. 



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