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reasons, he considers it the most profitable of all trees to plant in masses in 
a fertile soil, rather moist. At Fontainebleau, the female tree bears fertile 
seeds, from which many thousand plants come up annually in the walks, and 
are mostly destroyed, though some varieties have been selected from them. 
¥ 11. P. rastieta‘ta Desf. The fastigiate, or Lombardy, Poplar. 
Identification. Desf. Hist. Arb., t. 2. p. 465. 
Synonymes. P. dilatata Ait. Hort. Kew.3. p. 406.3 P. nigra itdélica Du Rot Harbk. 2. p. 141.5; P. 
itdlica Moench Weissenst.79.; P. ithlica dilatata Willd.; P. pyramidata Hort.; P. panndénica 
Jacq.; P.italica var. carolinénsis Burgsdorf ; Cypress Poplar, Turin Poplar, Po Poplar ; Peuplier 
a lealle, Feuplier pyramidal, Fr.; Lombardische Pappel, Italianische Pappel, Ger.; Pioppo 
‘ypresso, Ital. 
The Sexes. Plants of the male are plentiful in England. The female is known to be extant in 
Lombardy, whence we received dried specimens and seeds in November, 1836. (See Gard. Mag., 
vol. xii.) M. C. A. Fischer, inspector of the University Botanic Garden, Gottingen, found, in 
1827, a single plant of the female, after having many years before sought fruitlessly for it, among 
many thousands of plants around Gottingen. (See Gard. Mag., vol. vi. p. 419, 420.) 
Engravings. Thouin and Jaume St. Hilaire, t. 152. ; the platesin Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vii.; and 
our fig. 1563. in which @ represents the female catkins with the blossoms expanded ; 8, the female 
catkins with seeds ripe ; c, a portion of the female catkin of the natural size ; d, a single flower of 
the natural size; and e, a single flower magnified. 
1503. P. fastigiata, 
Spec. Char. 5c. Petiole compressed. Disk of leaf deltoid, wider than 
long, crenulated in the whole of the edge, even the base ; glabrous upon 
both surfaces. Leaves in the bud involutely folded. A fastigiate tree. 
