. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. S^^-S^ :^^,*»;>^i^^ - i» firs- i* -ws;» LOMBARDY POPLAR. PopuJus nigra Italica DiiRoi.^. Fig. no. Branchlet with mature leaves. As staminate trees only are found in this country weare unable to illustrate the fruit. Leafless branchlet in Trunk of tree near Lowville, N. Y. Handbook of Trees of Statp:.s and Ci 97 The Lombardy Pophir is tlie most distinctof tlie Foplais in hul)it of j^rowtli, and prob-ably no otlier introdiued tree lias been morewidely planted for ornamental pu
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. S^^-S^ :^^,*»;>^i^^ - i» firs- i* -ws;» LOMBARDY POPLAR. PopuJus nigra Italica DiiRoi.^. Fig. no. Branchlet with mature leaves. As staminate trees only are found in this country weare unable to illustrate the fruit. Leafless branchlet in Trunk of tree near Lowville, N. Y. Handbook of Trees of Statp:.s and Ci 97 The Lombardy Pophir is tlie most distinctof tlie Foplais in hul)it of j^rowtli, and prob-ably no otlier introdiued tree lias been morewidely planted for ornamental purposes. Itstall spire-sliaped tops are land-marks in al-most every populated region from the Atlanticto the Pacific and from the Canadian frontierto the Mexican huuiidaiy. and in some Euro-pean countries it is much more abundant thanhere. It is a tree of very rapid growth our northern states, short-lived, but onceplanted it spreads by means of suckers andpersists in the soil for generations, often be-coming a nuisance in its abundance. Its de-sirability, however, in landscape architecture,as for the relief of a monotonous sky-line, isundisputed. It sometimes attains the height of100
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