WILLOW FAMILY 
the fall of Simoisius when killed by Ajax to that of a 
poplar. 
So falls a poplar that on watery ground 
Raised high its head with stately branches crowned. 
Ovid mentions that Paris had carved the name of A‘none 
on a poplar, as Shakespeare makes Orlando carve the name 
of Rosalind upon the trees of the forest of Arden. 
Virgil gives directions for the culture of this tree and Hor- 
ace speaks of the White Poplar as delighting to grow on the 
banks of rivers. 
LOMBARDY POPLAR 
Pépulus nigra itdlica. 
‘The poplar there 
Shoots up its spire, and shakes its leaves i’ the sun. 
—BarRry CORNWALL. 
The Lombardy Poplar was the first ornamental tree intro- 
duced into the United States. A century ago it was ex- 
tremely fashionable, and although it has fallen from its high 
estate, nevertheless, it is by no means to be despised. Two 
things itcan do. It can make a narrow leafy wall sooner and 
more satisfactorily than any other tree, and it can grow by the 
roadside and not shade the street. It is the only deciduous 
tree whose branches hug the stem and resulting from that is 
its peculiar spiry shape, which is individual. When the wind 
blows, unlike other trees that wave in parts, it waves in one 
simple sweep from top to bottom. 
The poplar shoot 
Which like a feather waves from head to foot. 
—Leicu Hunt. 
The native home of the Lombardy Poplar has been a sub- 
ject of much discussion, but good opinion now Is that it orig- 
inated in Afghanistan. It is said to grow wild in a forest 
near Cabul at an elevation of 7,500 feet above the level of the 
sea. In early times it was cultivated in western Asia, 
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