. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. POPULUS (.ineient Latin name). Poplar. Aspen. Flora 20 to 25 soft-wooded trees of mostly small or medium size in the northern hemisphere, and which, with Salix, comprise the family Salic&cea. The Poplars are dioecious, with both staminate and pistillate flowers nak
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. POPULUS (.ineient Latin name). Poplar. Aspen. Flora 20 to 25 soft-wooded trees of mostly small or medium size in the northern hemisphere, and which, with Salix, comprise the family Salic&cea. The Poplars are dioecious, with both staminate and pistillate flowers naked and in slender mostly drooping catkins in which the scales are cut or cleft at the apex: stamens few or many, usually numerous, on distinct filaments: pistillate fls. comprising a single 1-loculed mostly sessile ovary with short style and 2-4 often lobed long stigmas: fr. a small 2-4-vaIved capsule, containing cottony seeds: Ivs. alternate, stalked, mostly broad: buds scaly, often resinous. The Poplar of lumbermen is the tulip-tree. (See Lirindendrnii.) The Poplars are amongst the easiest of all trees to grow. They grow readily from hardwood cuttiugs, as willows and currants do. The weeping varieties are grafted head-high on erect kinds, P. grandidrntata 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 Poplars (particularly the form known as P. Cerlinensis) are now popular, because they with- stand the trying winters. The Poplars are also useful for temporary shelter for other trees and bushes. In this respect the common Aspen [P. tremiiloides) is one of the most valuable of all trees in the reforestation of American lands. It springs up quickly in clearings, and during its comparatively short life holds the soil and protects other vegetati
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