. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. POPINAC POPULUS 1407 POPINAC is Acacia Farneslana. POPLAK. See Popuhis. POPLAK, YELLOW. Liriodendron. POPPY. Popaver. California P. is Eschscholzia. Celandine P. Stulophorum. Com P. Papucer Bliceas. Horned P. is Ghntciuin. Opium P. is Papuver sonini- fenuH. Prickly P. .See Aryciiwne. Sllirley P. is the finest s
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. POPINAC POPULUS 1407 POPINAC is Acacia Farneslana. POPLAK. See Popuhis. POPLAK, YELLOW. Liriodendron. POPPY. Popaver. California P. is Eschscholzia. Celandine P. Stulophorum. Com P. Papucer Bliceas. Horned P. is Ghntciuin. Opium P. is Papuver sonini- fenuH. Prickly P. .See Aryciiwne. Sllirley P. is the finest strain of Papaver Wtcsas. Tulip P. Hunne- maniiia. Welsh P, See Meconopsis Cumbrica. POPPY MALLOW is 0 int 1906. Staminate catkins of Populus tremuloides (X }-j). P6PITLUS (ancieut Latin name). Poplar. Aspen. From 20 to 25 soft-wooded trees of mostly small or medium size in the northern hemisphere, and which, with Salix, comprise the family Sallcclvetp. The Poplars are dioecious, with both staminate and pistillate flowers naked and in slender mostly drooxjina; catkins in which the scales are out or cleft at the apex: stamens few or many, usually numerous, ou distinct filaments: pistillate fls. comprisine: a single 1-loculed mostly sessile ovary with short style and 2-4 often lobed long stigmas: fr. a small 2-4-vah*ed capsule, containing cottony seeds: Ivs. alternate, stalked, mostly broad: buds scaly, often resinous. The Poplar of lumbermen is the tulip-tree. (See Liriodendron.) The Poplars are amongst the easiest of all trees to grow. They grow readilj' from hardwood cuttings, as willows and currants do. The weeping varieties are grafted head-high on erect kinds, I*, grandidenfata being much used as a stock. Poplars thrive in almost any soil, although the Cottonwood is most at home in lowlands and along streams, at least in the East. For shelter-belts they are very useful because of their rapid growth and great hardiness. In the prairie states some of the Russian Pop
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