. 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. POPULUS 9:490. âThe native form is occasionally seen about farm buildings and roadsides, where it malics a duralile and interesting tree; but it is rather too stiff for the pleasantest effects and too narrow for the best shade. The dull whiteness of the under side of the leaves af- POPULUS ]40f). planting,
. 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. POPULUS 9:490. âThe native form is occasionally seen about farm buildings and roadsides, where it malics a duralile and interesting tree; but it is rather too stiff for the pleasantest effects and too narrow for the best shade. The dull whiteness of the under side of the leaves af- POPULUS ]40f). planting, but. In,.- m,- I. .-i, i. u .ly, it gen to ;e wheu i.;, amongst other trees. It is a hardier tree than the Lumbardy, and does not run <iuickly to such extravagant heights. In cultivation from Russian sources, it is known as Nos. IG and 26 Voronesh and 32 Riga. The Balsam Poplar probably the most variable of Poplars. In cultivation in this country it is represented by at least three well-marked botanical varieties, ditl'ering from the species and from each other in the habit of growth, shape and color of leaves and character of twigs. Var. intermMia, Loudon (P. laurifdUa of American borliculturists, not of botanists. P. Siblrica pijriimi- ililis, Hort.). A comparatively slow-growing tree of close, upright habit: Ivs. very thick and hard, finely ser- rate, oval in outline, and prominently whitened beneath, commonly rather small for this group: twigs hard and cylindrical. N. Asia. âIt is considered to be a valuable tree for hot ^ dry interior climates; and it also has <lisliiM-t II!.-!i (..?â ..riiamental planting. It eventually been.' ⢠.1 'â¢'.:â â ' â¢. The Populus UmrifoUa and P. Sihi,' ' < ot American nurserymen are, !- . ..r,'. II iiior variations of this type. These trees an- aiiiciiiL'^t the recent introductions of Russian Poplars. Var. latifdUa, Loudon (P. iroUstii and P. Wdbsky. Hort.). P"ig. 1910. Includes f
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