The Poplar. 



either truncheons or cuttings, in the manner before pointed 

 out. 



486. Of the American Poplars, there are ten sorts : — 

 the Carolinian Poplar {Populm Angidata) 5 the Cotton 

 Wood {Populus Canadensis) ; the Black Poplar {Popidus 

 Hudsonica) the Virginian Poplar {Popidus Molinifera) ; 

 the Cotton Tree {Populus Hargentea) ; the Balsam Poplar 

 {Popidus Balsamifera), or Tacamahaca Tree; the Heari'- 

 leaved Poplar {Populus Candicans). Besides these, there 

 are the American White Poplar {Populus Canescens) ; the 

 American Aspen {Populus Tremidoides) ; and the x\merican 

 Large Aspen {Populus Grandidenia) , 



487. Like the English Poplars, the wood of all these is 

 good for very little; and can be very seldom used in a 

 country where excellent sorts of timber are so numerous 

 and so abundant. Cuttings and truncheons, even if we had a 

 mind to raise the trees, could not be brought from America. 

 They may be all raised in that manner; and if any body 

 has a mind to possess this American collection, the seed 

 might be easily brought over. 



488. Now, if it were desirable to have very fine and 

 beautiful Poplar trees, why not raise them from the seed ? 

 One complaint against the Poplar Trees, is, that they 

 drop their katkins in such abundance, that they litter the 

 ground all about, and make the neighbouring lawns and 

 walks so very unsightly. These katkins are full of little 

 oblong seeds covered with a soft down. I never sowed any 

 of them ; but, I am sure that the trees may be raised easily 

 from the seeds. I do not know that the seed would send 

 the plant up, from under ground, because the kernel, in 



