The Poplar. 



roots of a tree will never restore it to its erect attitiulej if it 

 once begin to lean. 



477. The Plane should, like most other deciduous trees, 

 be cut down to the ground the year after It is planted out ; 

 it will then send up a surprisingly strong shoot 5 and the 

 trunk will go on in a manner as straight as a gun-stick. 

 As it goes on rising, the lower side-shoots should be taken 

 off, always cutting close with a sharp knife, until you have 

 got a clear trunk to the length that you desire. 



THIS fOFIaAH. 



In Latin, Populus ; in French, Peuplier. 



478. The Botanical characters are : — The male and female flowers grow 

 upon separate trees. The male flowers or katkins have one oblong, loose, 

 cylindrical empalement, which is imbricated. Under each scale, which is 

 oblong, plain, and cut on the border, is situated a sing'le flower without any 

 petal, having a nectarium of one leaf, turbinated at the bottom, and tubulus 

 at the top, and eight stamina terminated by large four-cornered summits. 

 The female flowers are in katkins, like the male, but have no stamina; they 

 have an oval, acute-pointed germen, with scarcely any style, crowned by a 

 four-pointed stigma. The germen becomes afterwards an oval capsule, with 

 two cells, including many oval seeds having hairy down. 



479. This is a very numerous, and, according to my 

 taste, is, for the most part, a very worthless family of trees. 

 They all bear a seed in katkins, which come out early in 

 the spring, and the seed contained in which is ripe when 

 the katkins fall, which is generally late in May, or the be- 

 ginning of June. All the sorts may be raised from cuttings. 

 A cutting, or truncheon, stuck into the ground, produces 



