The Poplar. 



brush of both cut off and carried away; but the trunks 

 were laid down in the plantation, and, from some cause 

 which I now do not recollect, they remained there until the 

 next winter, when I had them taken away. The men, as 

 they brought the trunks out of the plantation, threw them 

 down upon the adjoining grass ground, and one of the 

 Poplars, pretty nearly as big round as my thigh, at the butt, 

 snapped short asunder. I had planted the trees 'm conse- 

 quence of the high encomiums passed on this sort of Poplar 

 by Mr. Pontky, in his book on " Profitable Planting." The 

 snapping asunder of this trunk was quite enough for me. 

 I instantly cut down and grubbed up every tree of the kind 

 that I had upon my premises. I examined the rest of the 

 trunks, and found them all very little better than touch- 

 wood. Nevertheless, this is a monstrous producer of boards 

 for packing cases, or for any other temporary uses where 

 durability is not required. The form of the trunk is spiral, 

 and the tree throws out no very large limbs; but it pro- 

 duces wood in the trunk faster than any other tree that I 

 have ever seen. 



484. This tree throws out suckers, but not so numerously 

 as the Abele. It is generally raised by the means of cut- 

 tings, about as big as your finger and a yard long, which 

 are put into the ground in the month of February to the 

 depth of half their length. They will send up shoots the 

 first year, only one of the stoutest of which shoots, should be 

 left. Thus will come a tree, which ought to be planted out 

 in the same manner as directed for the Ash. 



485. As to the Lombardy Poplar, it is so utterly worth- 

 less, so ugly, and so filthy, that I cannot bring myself to 

 say any thing about it, except that it may be raised by 



