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Soil, Situation, $c. The Lombardy poplar will only thrive on a tolerably 

 good soil, and will not attain a large size, except in a situation where to a 

 good soil is joined proximity to water. In the climate of London, it grows 

 with such rapidity, that care is required, when it is introduced in ornamental 

 plantations, to thin it out, or cut it down, so that its form may not prepon- 

 derate in the landscape. In the north of England, and in most parts of 

 Scotland, it does not thrive. 



Statistics. Recorded Trees. Dr. Walker mentions a tree on the borders of a canal, near Brussels, 

 which, in 15 years, attained the height of 80 ft, with a trunk from 7 ft. to 8 ft. in circumference. 

 Another tree," at Nisbet, in Berwickshire, had, in 1795, attained the height of 60 ft. in 26 years; with 

 a trunk 6 ft. 1 in. in circumference at 4 ft. from the ground. The largest tree that Sir Thomas Dick 

 Lauder knows of in Scotland stands on the lawn, a little below the Castle of Tarnawa, in Morayshire. 

 Phillips saya the most extraordinary Lombardy poplars which he had seen were on the banks of the 

 Seine, near Rouen. They had not been planted more than 20 years ; " yet their height is such, as to 

 make it quite awful to walk in the avenues." (St/l. Floy., vol. ii. p. 133.) We wrote to our friend, the 

 Abbe Gosier of ltouen, for some account of these trees ; and his answer, dated March 4th, 1837, 

 states, on the authority of M. Dubreuil, Conservator des Promenades publiques, &c, that they 

 grow in alluvial soil, and are 150 ft. high. A tree, planted in 1758, in the St. Peter's Nursery, Can- 

 terbury, was blown down, Mr. Masters informs us, during the hurricane of Nov. 29. 1836. The trunk 

 WM upwards of 5 It. in diameter at 1ft. from the ground, and at 6 ft. it was 4 ft. 4 in. in diameter. 

 It was nearly 100ft in height, very symmetrically formed, and from the northern and western 

 entrances to Canterbury was an object of considerable attraction. The wood of the trunk was in a 

 complete state of decay, and had produced an abundance of Polyporus igniarius for several years past. 

 Existing Trees In England, in the environs of London, at Ham House, Essex, it is 110 ft. high, 

 with a trunk 3 ft. 10 in. in diameter; at Gunnersbury Park, 45 years planted, it is 84 ft. high, diameter 

 of the trunk g| ft. ; at Whitton, it is 115 ft. high. In Somersetshire, at Nettlecombe, 18 years old, it 

 is 62 ft high, "the diameter of the trunk 1^ ft., and of the head 7~ ft. ; in Surrey, at Walton upon 

 Thames, 52 years planted, it is 110 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 8 in. : in Cambridgeshire, 

 in the parish of Gamlingay, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 10 in. ; in the Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 5 ft., and of the head 30 ft. : in Denbigh- 

 shire, at Llanbede Hall, 50 years planted, it is 73 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2$ ft, and of the 

 bead IS ft ; in Durham, at Southend, IS years planted, it is 45 ft. high; in Gloucestershire, at Dodding- 

 tou, it is 95ft high, diameter of the trunk 3 ft.; in Lancashire, at Latham House, 40 years planted, it is 

 BO It. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 14 ft. ; in Leicestershire, at Donnington 

 Park, 60 years planted, it is 88 ft. high: in Oxfordshire, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, it is 80 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 3i ft, and of the head 18 ft. ; in the village of Great Tew are some 

 treea which are 125 ft. high, planted about [50 years ago, by a labourer who still lives near them :• 

 in Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole Court, 35 years old, it is 80 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft., 

 and that of the head 12 ft.; in Radnorshire, at Belvoir Castle, 18 years old, it is 50 ft high; in 

 Staffordshire, at Rolleston Hall, it is 88ft. high, with a trunk 2^ ft. in diameter; in Suffolk, at 

 Finborough Hall, 80 years planted, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 

 in Warwickshire, at Coombe Abbey, 70 years planted, it is 85 ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 3 ft., and of the head 12 ft. : in Worcestershire, at Hagley, 9 years planted, it is 19 ft. high ; 

 at Crooine, JO years planted, is 70 ft. high : in Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 60 ft. 

 high ; at Knedlington, 11 years planted, it is 34ft. high. In Scotland, in Lanarkshire, in the Glasgow 

 Botanic Garden, 16 years planted, it is 65 ft nigh ; in Renfrewshire, at North Barr, 30 years planted, 

 it i- 70ft high; in Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar Institution, 12 years planted, it 

 : in Inverness-shire, at Cowan, 45 years planted, it is 75 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 1ft., and of the bead 12 It. ; in Perthshire, at Taymouth, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 1 ft. 2 in., and of the head 12 ft. ; in Ross-shire, at Brahan Castle, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 2 ft In Ireland, iii Galway, at Coole, it is. '30 ft. high, with a trunk 9 in. in diameter. In 

 the (tie "I Jersey, in Saunders's Nursery, 10 years planted, it is 36 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 I ft., and of the head 19ft In France, at Ermenonville, in the Isle of Poplars, are several 80ft. 

 high. In Belgium, at Ghent, iii the I'.otanie Garden, 80 ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, 60 

 fl high, with a trunk l*ft. in diameter. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English 

 d, il i- l-M high, the diameter of the trunk 12 in., and of the head 10ft. In 

 ■ at Berlin, in the Botanic Garden, <>o years old. it is 60ft. high, with a trunk 2ft in 



•. r Iii Italy, m Lombardy, at Monza, 10 years old, it it 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 nd oi the bead 10 ft j at Uelgiosa, near Pavia, 80 years planted, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter 



trunk ift 7 m. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, from 5ft. to 6 ft. in height, are 8*. per hun- 

 dred in the London nurseries ; at Bollwyller, from 50 to 60 cents each. 



y 12. P. \n'.i 



Ail. The BXig\ed-branched, <>r Carolina, Poplar. 



Identification Art Hort Kew., ed. 1 , S. p. 107., ed, 2., 5. p. 396. , Michx. Arb., 3.; North Amer 

 :.\ , J'ursh m Amei Bent., 2,p 6l9.j Lodd cat., ed I83fl 



