A FYIRAMUBAIL 

 LAND S CAPE. T IRE E 



N unwritten law seems to prevail 

 among amateur gardeners that if a 

 tall, slender, deciduous tree is re- 

 quired for an architecTtural effecft that 

 it mu^ be a Lombardy Poplar. And, 

 they are, mo^ assuredly, decidedly 

 pi(5turesque and adaptable picfture- 

 making trees — quick-growing, gracefully tall and 

 giving but little if any trouble for a few years. 

 But then, sad to relate! just when the Lombardy 

 poplar reaches the point where it gives us every- 

 thing in effedt we had hoped and driven for, it 

 begins to decline, and its degeneration is so rapid, 

 its beauty so quickly blighted, it my^ifies us. And 

 what is worse the very effecTt we had attained, after 



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