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the Abele (which is the bed timber) is good both for ilooriiig 

 and wainfcotting rooms, being exiremely white, and neither fub- 

 je6l to fpht, fwell, or ilirink : But notwithflanding thefe good 

 qualities, in grounds intended to produce good and clean grafs, 

 I lliould rather advife the white and Lombardy Poplars, as not 

 fubjecfl to produce fuckers, which the Abele does in fuch abun- 

 dance as to deftroy the grafs, or other crops where the land is 

 not annually cultivated : For thefe reafbns, this tree ought to be 

 planted at fach diftances as to run quickly up for timber-trees, 

 without other confiderations. 



The white Poplar with ftrip'd leaves, is increafed by bud- 

 ding it on the common white Poplar ; but the variegation is 

 faint, if not planted on a poor thin foiL 



Tk e Lombardy Poplar has been but lately introduced into Bri- 

 tain ; it is a fine chearful pyramidal plant, grows yet fafler than 

 the common kinds, and affords an admirable flicker to every 

 thing it furrounds : It is propagated with equal eafe as the o- 

 thers, by cuttings, and, fo far as I have been able to obferve, is as 

 hardy, and will fucceed in all the fame kinds of land they do ; 

 from whence, if generally cultivated, there appears every rea- 

 fon to believe it v/iii foon turn out to a national beneht. 



The black Carolina Poplar is a very graceful plant, but is far 

 from being fo hardy as any of the other kinds, great part of the 

 former years fiioot being fubjed: to perifh in hard winters, or 

 where they are much expofed ; and therefore they ought to be 

 placed in a well protedled fituation, and in a good deep, feeding,, 

 moift, but not wet foil: Fortho',,in their native climate, where 



