48 THE CANADIAN FORESTER'S 



Populus Balsamifera — Balsam-Poplar. Populus Canaden- 

 sis — Cotton-wood. Populus Tremplo'ides — American 

 Aspen. 



As all the poplars have pretty nearly the same 

 characteristics as regards forestry-work, I will content 

 myself with giving a description that will answer for 

 all the above-named species, except where a special 

 peculiarity may seem to demand our notice. Poplars 

 like a cool, light soil. I do not recommend them for all 

 situations ; but for some districts, and particularly for 

 Manitoba, I cannot sufficiently press their cultivation ; 

 for, wher J wood is scarce and the demand immediate, 

 the rapidity of their growth and the facility of their 



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transplantation, render the poplar a most valuable tree 

 Besides, from the ease with which they are propagated 

 from cuttings, they are found useful wherever they 

 grow. They are planted in company with hickories, oaks, 

 and walnuts, to protect the young plants by the shade 

 they afford. Cuttings are made in this fashion : the wood 

 is divided into pieces two feet long ; 'the end which is 

 intended to enter the ground is bevelled, or cut en biseau 

 and is buried so deep that only a very little of the 

 cutting is above ground. "Wood of the year, or of two 

 years old, may be used for this purpose. The cuttings 

 should be made after the fall of the leaf, and set, at once, 

 where they are to remain, at a distance of four feet apart 

 between the rows and five feet in the rows, provided 



