. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXIX. 5ETULA^CEiE: ^'LNUS. 831 into leaf; its foliage is of a rich gamboge yellow, and so fragrant as in moist evenings to perfume the surrounding air. The tree is remarkably hardy, but, unless in the vicinity of water, it seldom attains a large size in England,, or is of great duration.
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXIX. 5ETULA^CEiE: ^'LNUS. 831 into leaf; its foliage is of a rich gamboge yellow, and so fragrant as in moist evenings to perfume the surrounding air. The tree is remarkably hardy, but, unless in the vicinity of water, it seldom attains a large size in England,, or is of great duration. Readily propagated by suckers, which it sends up in abun- dance ; or by cuttings, which, however, do not strike so readily as those of the poplars belonging to P. nigra. * 15. P. ca'ndicans Ait. The whitish-feared Balsam-bearing, or Ontario, Poplar. Identtfication. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 406.; Michx. N. Amer. Sylva, 2. p. 239. t. 98. f. 2.; Pursh Sept., 2. p. 618. Synonymes. P. macrophJUa Lindl. in Encyc. of Plants p. 840.; P. latifblia Mcench Meth. p. 338. ; P. ontarifensis De^. Hort. Par.; P. cordSta Lodd. Cat. 1836; P. canadensis Mcench Weissenst. 81., but not of Michx. which is P. leevigSta WiUd.; Balm of Gilead Tree, Boston, North Amer.; Peuplier liard, Canada ; Peuplier k Feuilles veraissees, Fr. The Sexes. The male is in the London Horticultural Society's Garden; the female is in the Duke of Wellington's garden at Apsley House, London.' Engravings. Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 2. t. 98. f. 2.; and ourj^. 1511. Spec. Char., S[C. Shoot round. Bud very gummy. Stipules gummy. Pe- tiole compressed in its upper part, hairy in many instances. Disk of leaf heart-shaped at the base, ovate, acuminate; serrated with blunt unequal teeth; 3-nerved; deep green on the upper surface, whitish on the under one, on which the veins appear reticulate. Inflorescence similar to that of P. balsamifera, and the disk of the leaf thrice as large as in that species. (^Michx.) A tree. North America, i
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