tude to which they will arrive; and though named 
aquatics, and certainly preferring margins of rivers, and 
low moist grounds, they will yet thrive exceedingly well 
in drier situations. It is a class containing many 
species, three of which — the white, the black, and the 
trembling poplar—arenatives. Amongst those of foreign 
growth, perhaps the best known, and most distinct in 
character, is the Lombardy or Po poplar, a native, as its 
name imports, of Italy, where it grows very plentifully, 
especially on the banks of the Po. Its towering conical 
shape arrests the eye at once, and agreeably breaks the 
uniformity of outline in our plantations and shrubberies. 
It has also another beauty peculiar to itself; and that is, 
as Gilpin observes, “ the waving line it forms when 
agitated by the wind. Most trees in this circumstance 
are partially agitated: one side is at rest, while the 
other is in motion; but the Italian poplar waves in one 
simple sweep from the top to the bottom.” 
- u The poplar’s shoot, 
That like a feather waves from head to foot.” 
For this graceful addition to our sylva we are indebted 
to the Earl of Rochford, who brought it hither in the 
year 1758, so that it is comparatively of recent intro- 
