POPLAR AND WILLOW* 



but when is unknown, and is often seen to-day as a 

 planted tree. , In and around Tsingtao it has been 

 much planted and fron^ there taken to southerjrMan* 

 churia and Korea, where it has been planted to a ridfcu- 

 lous extent. Also it has reached Japan, but there 

 the tree has not found favour. To France the Lom- 

 bardy Poplar was introduced in 1749. It is usually 

 stated to have been brought to England in i75&by the 

 Earl of Rochford, ambassador at that time in Turin, 

 and planted at St. Osyth's in Essex, but there is good 

 reason for believing that it was introduced some 

 years earlier by the Duke of Argyll and planted at 

 Whitton. It was introduced into America by Wil- 

 liam Hamilton from England in 1784, and planted 

 on his estate at Woodlands, iShiladelphia. 



The Lombardy Poplar was first recognized and 

 described as a variety of the Black Poplar by Du 

 Roi in 1772. Since then it has received several other 

 names but experts now agree with Du Roi. Such 

 is the history, in brief, of one of the most common and 

 best known of planted trees. It is of essentially 

 modern origin and yet, fhanks to its distinct ap- 

 ^pearance, which has singled it out for favouritism, and 

 the ease witK which it is propagated, it has been 

 spread over a' wider a^a of the world's surface than 

 any other European tree of purely ornamental char- 

 acter. 



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