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P0PULUS. 



France, and other parts of the Continent, it is extensively- 

 used as a wayside tree, for which, Loudon remarks, it 

 is well adapted in a climate like our own, for, growing 

 with a clean trunk, it has no side branches to prevent 

 the admission of light and free circulation of air, both 

 very necessary to the keeping of our highways in a state 

 of good repair. It is also sometimes used to form avenues 

 of approach, and when an effect is wished to be produced 

 in the shortest possible time, answers the purpose perhaps 

 better than any other rapid-growing tree, as its form is 

 often fine, and it carries an ample head. As an avenue 

 tree, however, it is inferior to the elm, beech, lime, and 

 some others, and is, besides, objectionable on account 

 of the numerous suckers it throws up, to a great distance 

 around, and it is, therefore, only in cases where time is 

 considered of great importance, that we recommend it for 

 this purpose. 



Hitherto this Poplar, though widely distributed through- 

 out Britain, and long propagated in our nurseries, has 

 never been extensively planted, and rarely in masses to- 

 gether ; we are however, of opinion, from its rapid growth, 

 the size it attains, and its clean straight timber, that it 

 would prove a very profitable tree to the planter, in lo- 

 calities where wood of its quality is in demand, such as in 

 manufacturing districts where Poplar and willow wood is 

 used for flooring, machinery, &c. — Plantations composed 

 of it would also have the advantage of furnishing, for 

 an indefinite length of time, a constant succession of tim- 

 ber, as young trees from the suckers would always be in 

 training to replace those annually cut down. It is also 

 well adapted to fill up blanks in young plantations, and we 

 recommend its insertion in narrow belts and strips, where, 

 if not allowed to grow to maturity, it might be kept as 



