. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . fragrance of its large buds inspring-time: Ivs. broad and heart-shaped, green aboveand veiny and rusty-white beneath, the leaf-stalk usu-ally hairy and somewhat flattened. New Brunswick toN. J. and W. to Minn. 9:491. Gn. 29, pp. 12.), 126.— It is very different from the Balsam
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . fragrance of its large buds inspring-time: Ivs. broad and heart-shaped, green aboveand veiny and rusty-white beneath, the leaf-stalk usu-ally hairy and somewhat flattened. New Brunswick toN. J. and W. to Minn. 9:491. Gn. 29, pp. 12.), 126.— It is very different from the Balsam Poplar in methodof growth, as it has none of the pyramidal or spire-liketendency of that species, but usually makes a broad andirregularly spreading top. While the tree is common incult., it is rare wild. In the early days, however, it wasfound in very large trees in Michigan and other westernstates, and was used for sawing timber; and small iso-lated natural groves of it are still to be seen. TheBalm of Gilead makes a good street tree, and is perhapsthe best of the Poplars for shade. Well-grown treeshave the darkest and richest foliage of any commonPoplar, and this character makes the tree valuable inheavy groups about the borders of a place. The top isliable to become open and broken jvith age, however,. 1912. Populus deltoides below, P. laurifoUa above (X M). and the tree often sprouts profusely. It is not welladapted to smoky and dusty locations, as it soon be-comes grimj-. Probably a good species. 4. Simonii, Carr. A strong, strict tree with Ivs. dif-fering from those of the Balm of Gilead in having arounded or tapering base and much finer teeth, butotherwise they are much alike. The shoots are reddishbrown and spotted, and deeply grooved. China.— France about 1861 by M. E. Simon, and somewhatplanted in this country. Some authors consider this tobe only a form of P. balsamifera, and if the Balm ofGilead is to be regarded as a form of that species, per-haps thi
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