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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1919 



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A Really Good Poplar 



THE very existence cf this tree (See page 19) 

 is barely recognized and where it is grown 

 is confused with Populus suaveolens. 

 Mr. Henry Hicks who kindly supplies the 

 photograph accompanying this note says, "we 

 are growing very few of these Poplars because 

 we believe the native Oaks are better native 

 trees. The founder of this nursery had it in 1890. 



A Poplar that ought to be better known, P. Maximowiczii; holds 

 its leaves late in the year; and fruit unopened till September 



I do not know where he got it nor how it was 

 introduced. I have not seen it except in this 

 vicinity. I have not grown it side by side with 

 the Cottonwood, but believe it equally handsome 

 and perhaps superior in holding good foliage 

 in the summer, and in upright ovate outline. 

 It averages wider and more stately than the 

 Carolina Poplar. It suffers slightly from 

 borers but not to the extent of the Carolina or 

 Lombardy Poplar. The only one I know of 

 killed by borers was on the estate of Mr. F. W. 

 Woolworth at Glen Cove, Long Island. 



"One charm of this tree is that like the Larch 

 it comes out in foliage ten days before other 

 trees and is always green, the foliage appearing 

 as late in the season as almost any deciduous 

 tree. The tree photographed was planted 

 about 1898 and the avenue is now, after twenty 

 years, in excellent condition. They are on thin 

 gravelly soil; so dry that old Norway Spruce 

 and White Ash have died. 



"In favor of the tree is its rapid growth — three 

 to five feet a year for the first eight years. Under 

 similar conditions the Norway Maple may grow 

 six inches to two feet, the Red or Pin Oak twelve 

 inches to thirty inches. The leaf is rugose like 

 that of Rosa rugosa and the foliage does not drop 

 on gravelly soil where there is less than a half 

 inch of rain in August." 



The Arnold Arboretum Bulletin for June 20, 

 1918, says that specimens first came to the 

 Arboretum from Petrograd in 1878; but its 

 character was not recognized until some years 

 later. The trees, now twenty years old, and 

 thirty-five feet high have never been attacked 

 by borers and the leaves apparently have no 

 attraction for any leaf-eating caterpillar. The 

 fruit remains on the trees until September without 

 opening. "It is not only the handsomest and 

 most satisfactory tree in the Poplar collection 

 but it is one of the few large exotic trees with 

 deciduous leaves which can be recommended for 

 general planting in the Northern states." — L.B. 



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