214. A DISCOURSE 



BOOK I. of our herbals. I wish we had more of thera, but they are difficult to 

 "^"^^^^^ elevate at first ^. 



4. The Aspen only (which is that kind of Lybica, or White Poplar, 

 bearing a smaller and more tremulous leaf, by the French called La 

 Tremble, or Quaker,) thrusts down a more searching foot, and in this 

 likewise differs, that it takes it ill to have its head cut off. Pliny would 

 have short truncheons couched two feet in the ground, but first two days 

 dried, at one foot and a half distance, and then moulded over. 



5. There is something of a finer sort of White Poplar, which the Dutch 

 call Abele, and we have of late much of it transported out of Holland. 

 These are also best propagated of slips from the roots, the least of which 

 will take, and may in March, at three or four years growth, be transplanted. 



6. In Flanders (not in France, as a late Author pretends) they have 

 large nurseries of them, which first they plant at one foot distance, the 

 mould light and moist, by no means clayey ; in which though they may 

 shoot up tall, yet for want of root they never spread : for, as I said, they 

 nmst be interred pretty deep, not above three inches above ground, and 



/This tree is called by LinnEeus liriodendron (tulipifera) foliis [lobatis. Herman 

 calls it TULIPIFERA ARBOR riRGiNiANA; and Plukenet and Catesby, tulipifera vjrgimanj, 

 tripartita aceris folio ; media lacinia velut abscissa ; also tulipifera carolisiana, foliis produc- 

 Horibus magis angiiloiis. The tulip-tree. It is o£ the class and oider Polj/UTidria Polt/gynia. 



TheTulip-tree is a native of North America : It is a tree of the first magnitude, and is gene- 

 rally known through all the American States by the title of Poplar. Of lale years there 

 have been great numbers of these trees raised from seeds in the English gardens, so that now 

 they are become common in the nurseries about London ; and there are many of them in 

 several parts of England whicb do annually produce flowers The first tree of this kind 

 which flowered here, was in the gardens of the late Earl of Peterborough, at Parson's Green, 

 near Fulham, which was planted in a wilderness among other trees; before this was planted 

 in the open air, the few plants which were then in the English Gardens were planted in pots, 

 and housed in winter, supposing they were too tender to live in the open air ; but this tree, 

 soon after it was placed in the full ground, convinced the gardeners of their mistake, by the 

 great progress it made, while those which were kept in pots and tubs increased slowly in their 

 growth; so that afterward there were many others planted in the full .ground, which are 

 now arrived to a large size, especially those which were planted in a moist soil. One of the 

 handsomest trees of this kind, near London, is in the garden of Waltham Abbey ; and at 

 Wilton, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke, there are some trees of great bulk; as also at 

 Bishopthorpe, the palace of the Archbishop of York. The old tree at Parson's Green is quite 



