. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. : it may, however, be applied to many similarpurposes, but upon the whole, both as an ornamentaland profitable tree, we consider it decidedly inferior tothe other. In certain situations the contrast produced bythe snowy whiteness of its leaves when agitated by thewind, with foliage of a darker hue, has a peculiar andsparkling effect, and it is, therefore, a tree that may oc-casionally be successfully introduced in landscape garden-ing. Some of its varieties, also, such as Pop. acerifolia,and Pop. tomentosa, the Maple-leaved and Ho
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. : it may, however, be applied to many similarpurposes, but upon the whole, both as an ornamentaland profitable tree, we consider it decidedly inferior tothe other. In certain situations the contrast produced bythe snowy whiteness of its leaves when agitated by thewind, with foliage of a darker hue, has a peculiar andsparkling effect, and it is, therefore, a tree that may oc-casionally be successfully introduced in landscape garden-ing. Some of its varieties, also, such as Pop. acerifolia,and Pop. tomentosa, the Maple-leaved and Hoary Poplar ofthe nurseries, distinguished by larger and more palmate-shaped leaves, and with even a greater degree of snowy WHITE POPLAR, OR ABELE TREE. 183 whiteness, are worth cultivating for their appearance. ThePop. Egyptiaca, which Loudon supposes a variety of , appears, from the plants we possess, to be verydifferent in character, and more likely to belong to , or else to the group to which the Lombardy Poplar(Pop. fastigiataj, 184 POPULPJS.
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