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near Porter, at the foot of Conaut street, on Derbj' 

 street near Phillips wharf, and in many other places. 

 The largest Balm of Gilead in this neighborhood was 

 in the yard of the old Silsbee house on Daniels street. 

 It was more than fourteen feet in circumference, but 

 the storms broke its limbs and most of the tree has 

 been cut away. 



The stiff Lombardy Poplar (Populus dilatata) once 

 grown everywhere, is now but rarely seen except in a 

 state of decay. Our Common was originally planted with 

 these trees in 1802 from nui-series on the northern side, 

 in the vicinity of Winter street. But, fifteen years 

 later, the trees were found to be of little value for 

 ornament and they were replaced by elms. There 

 are wrecks of Lombardy poplars on Loring avenue, 

 beyond the Marblehead branch railroad crossing, near 

 the Willows, and on the Newburyport turnpike in 

 various places. There are two trees on Davis street, 

 Beverly, and one near the railroad, back of Bridge 

 street. The fancy for these trees has revived of late, 

 and many have been planted at Revere beach and in 

 Beverly. Possibly they may do better in sandy soil, 

 but it is doubtful if the experiment is successful. 



The finest of the genus, the necklace poplar (Populus 

 monilifera) a native of the western part of this State 

 and a common street tree in New Jersey and in Phila- 

 delphia, is rarely seen here. There are two magnificent 

 specimens on Boston common, in the low ground at the 

 south of the soldiers' monument. It has been planted 

 near some of the new summer residences at Marble- 

 head, where the young trees already make a fine 

 appearance. The persistent planting of the Balm of 

 Gilead, the white and the Lombardy poplars, and the 



