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produces a given quantity of foliage and shade sooner perhaps 
than any other. Some of the American kinds, are majestic 
and superb trees when old, particularly the Cottonwood 
and Balsam poplars.* One of the handsomest sorts is 
the Silver poplar, which is much valued in our ornamental 
[Fig. 34. The Cottonwood.] 
* There is a noble specimen of the Cottonwood, or, as it is here called, the 
Balm of Gilead poplar, about two miles north of Newburgh, on the Hudson, 
which gives its name to the small village (Balmville,) near it. The branches 
cover a surface of one hundred feet in diameter, the trunk girths twenty feet, and 
the branches stretch over the public road in a most majestic manner. (See 
Fig. 34. 
