THE POPLAR. 327 
Britain it is of much more humble stazar<. and zr-w: vigorously 
only for a few years when young, Ii is purely ornamental. 
The bark of the young wood ‘s of a rich chesnut colour, and 
the buds are large, and encased in a glutmou: balsam. The 
trunk haz an ash-coloured bark. In the opening of the sprmg 
it early discloses its leaves, of a pale yellow, possessed of a 
rich balsamic fragrance, which it ditases throughout the 
atmosphere. The leaves eventually become of a rich dark 
green. There are many varieties of this tree, which differ in 
the :iz=. saape, and the shade of the leaves. in the vigour of 
growth, and in the time im which they expand their foliage. 
The tree and its varieties are all readily propagated by cuttings, 
or from suckers. which it is in the habit of producing. Ik 
will grow when young m almost any desription of s-° with 
considerable vigour, and smetimes It produces in one season 
a si<< four or five feet long; but its early vigour resembles 
that of several species of willow, the laburnum, and locust 
trees; It is of short duration, and im this countzy iv only 
atiaiz: the savure of a dwarf timber tree, seldom exceeding 
thirty or forty feet im height. 
P. Candicans : The Whitish-leaved Palsam-bearmg or 
Ontario Poplar; syn. P. macrophylla “(Lindlev;—This tree 15 
a native of America, and is generally known im thi: country 
as the Ontario Poplar. In appearance and fragrance it is 
very like the balsam poplar, but it is a week or two later 
in coming into leaf. Its leaves are larger and rounder, and 
altogether the tree is of more robuzs: growth; bat in this 
country it fails to attain great dimensions, usually getting 
stunted or =<t in growth on reaching forty feet in height, 
which it generally attains im twenty years; then ics branches 
soon become so britile that they can scarcely support a crow. 
Its vigorous growth, broad leaves, and pleasant fragrance 
when young make it an interesting object in newly-formed 
plantation: by the road-side ; and as it is readily grown from 
cuttings, it is often employed for thickening up ornamental 
plantations till slower-growing and more permanent trees get 
established. 
