WHITE POPLAR, OR ABELE TREE. 



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whiteness, are worth cultivating for their appearance. The 

 Pop. Egypt'iaca, which Loudon supposes a variety of Pop. 

 alba, appears, from the plants we possess, to be very 

 different in character, and more likely to belong to Pop. 

 nigra, or else to the group to which the Lombardy Poplar 

 (Pop. fast igiataj, belongs. 



