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without restraint ; they will quickly undermine a wall 

 forty feet from the stem, and in a short time take entire 

 possession of the whole land round Ihem within a 

 radius of thirty feet. Eng. 125, p. 134, represents the 

 Kilmarnock weeping- willow. 



123. — Leaves of Lorabardy poplar. 



122. — Populus pyramidalis— 



Lombardy poplar. 



It must be well understood that the ornamental trees 

 I have mentioned must only be planted in those spots 

 which I have before pointed out as suitable to their 

 cultivation. 



One word as to ornamental hedges. "Where snow is 

 abundant in winter, and where field-mice are trouble' 

 some, the only hedges I can recommend are those com- 

 posed of Norway spruce, of firs, of willows, and of arbor 



