Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
When the young trees, railed by either or all of the 
different methods, are advanced in growth, about four 
or five, to fix, eight, or ten feet high, they are then 
of proper fizes for any plantations in which they may 
be required. 
The feafon for transplanting or planting thefe trees, 
is principally either in autumn, at the decay of the 
leaves, or in the lpring, February or March; or in 
mild feafons, may be performed any time in open wea¬ 
ther, from October or November, to March aforefaid, 
or beginning of April as formerly intimated: have 
them taken up with full roots, and planted as foon af¬ 
ter as pofiible; and if any are of tall growth, in ex- 
pofed fuuations, they ihould have fupport of flakes to 
preferve them upright. 
In their future growth, after the final tranfplanting 
of the trees, may prune up lateral Ihoots and under 
branches, by degrees, to run them with a clean, 
ftraight Item, and permit them to run up freely above 
in full heads. 
Populus, POPLAR TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Dioecia Oftandria, 
Two Habitations, Eight Males ; 
Or Flowers Male and Female, fparate on two different 
Frees ; and the Males having eight Stamina. 
THE Poplars are large and lofty-growing deciduous 
trees, moftly of the aquatic tribe, delighting to grow 
in moift fituations, valuable as forefl-trees, asalfo for 
variety and ornament; are generally fwift growers, 
with fpreading and upright heads in the different fpe- 
cies; garnifhed, in fummer, with largilh and mid¬ 
dling, roundifli, cordate, and deltoid-hearted leaves; 
and fmall, greenilh male and female flowers, diftindt 
or apart on two feparate trees, difpofed in oblong, 
fcaly amentums, each fcale forming a cup to one flo¬ 
ret, without petals ; containing eight fmall ftamina in 
the males, and in the females, a ihort ftyle, crowned 
by a quadrifid ftigma, and fucceeded in the females 
by oval capfules, furniflied with many downy, ovate 
feeds, by which the trees may be raifed ; but are more 
generally propagated by cuttings and layers, or par¬ 
ticular varieties, by grafting. 
The Species of POPULUS are, 
i. Populus alba,- White Poplar or Abele Tree, 
A large deciduous tree, growing fixty feet high or 
more—the leaves {large and middling, light-green, 
whitijh) roundifli, dentated-angular, three, four, or 
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five-lobed, the under fide hoary, white.—Native of 
the temperate parts of Europe. ( Moijl , watery, o' 
any common foil.) 
Varieties. —Large-leaved White Poplar. 
Small-leaved Whire Poplar. 
Variegated-leaved White poplar. 
2. Populus nigra. Black Poplar Tree. 
A large deciduous tree, growing fifty or fixty feet 
high - the leaves {middling, dark-green) deltoid-ovate- 
hearted, pointed and ferrated, or favved.—Native of 
the temperate parts of Europe. ( Moijl or any filiation.) 
3 • Populus tremula. Tremulous or Trembling-leaved 
Poplar, or Afpen Tree. 
A large deciduous tree, growing fifty or fixty feet 
high—the leaves {/mailer or middling , light-green) 
roundifli, dentated-angulate, finooth on both fldes, hav¬ 
ing generally a continual tremulous or wavering mo¬ 
tion, by the leafl wind.—Native of the cold parts of 
Europe. {Moijl or any commonfoil andftuaticn.) 
4. Populus heterophylla , Various-leaved American 
Poplar Tree. 
A mod large deciduous tree, growing fifty or fixty 
feet high, or more—the leaves {large, light-green) 
cordate or hearted, and roundifh, the early ones dow¬ 
ny.—Native of Virginia, See. {Moijl or any foil.) 
V'ariety. — {Populus graca) Grecian or Athenian va¬ 
riable-leaved Poplar, growing fixty feet 
high—the leaves {large, light-green) 
heart-form. Sec. —Native of Greece. 
{Any common foil.) 
5. Populus lalfamifera, Balfamatic Carolina Poplar. 
A large deciduous tree, growing fixty feet high— 
the leaves {large) fomewhat heart-form, denticulated 
or fine-notched; the buds abounding in a balfamatic, 
odoriferous, gummy fubftance_Native of North 
America. {Moif or any fituation.) 
Variety .— {Populus Tacamahacca) {Tacamahacca) 
commonly called Tacamahac, or Bal- 
fam Tree. 
A middling deciduous tree, growing twenty-five or 
thirty feet high—the leaves {middling, light-green) ob¬ 
long-ovate, and fome hearted, hoary on the under 
fide; the buds and leaves full of a balfamous fub¬ 
ftance, mod excellent for frelh cuts or green wounds. 
—Native of America. (Any common foil.) 
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