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effects, its character and leafage being so strikingly different from those of the 
Lombardy Poplar, while the outline of the tree is very similar. 
We learn from the Messrs. Transon that the parent tree was found by their 
grandfather in 1829, growing near the gate of a fanii, some few leagues distant 
Robinia Pseud-acacia pyramidalis. 
from Orleans, the plant being then fully ten years old, and having up to that time 
passed unnoticed by any horticulturist. M. Transon procured grafts of the tree, 
which were worked in due course, and one of them being planted in his grounds, 
has grown into the noble specimen, now about G2 ft. in height, which is repre- 
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