. 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. LXVUI. SAhlCA>CKm^: PO'PULUS. 827 reasons, he considers it the most profitable of all trees to plant in masses in a fertile soil, rather moist. At Fontainebleau, the female tree bears fertile seeds, from which many thousand plants come up annually in the walks, and are mostly destroye
. 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. LXVUI. SAhlCA>CKm^: PO'PULUS. 827 reasons, he considers it the most profitable of all trees to plant in masses in a fertile soil, rather moist. At Fontainebleau, the female tree bears fertile seeds, from which many thousand plants come up annually in the walks, and are mostly destroyed, though some varieties have been selected from them. 1^ 11, P. FASTiGiA^TA Desf. The fastigiate, or Lovibardy, Poplar, Identification. Dcsf. Hist Arb., t. 2. p. 465. Synonymes. P. dilatSta Ait. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 406.; P. nigra itfiUca JDu Rot Harb/c. 2. p. Ul.; P. italica Mcsnck Weissenst. 79.; P. cilatJita WiUd.; P. pyramidSta Hort. \ P. panndnica Jacq. J P. itSlica var. carolinensis Burgsdorf; Cypress Poplar, Turin Poplar, Po Poplar ; PeupUer d'ltalie, Peuplier pyramidal, Pr.; tombardische Pappel, Italianische Pappel, Ger.\ Pioppo Cypresso, Ital. The Sexes. Plants of the male are plentiful in England. The female is known to be extant in Lombardy, whence we received dried specimens and seeds in November, 1836. (See Gard. Mag., vol. xii.) M, C. A. Fischer, inspector of the University Botanic Gardeoi Gottingen, found, in 1827, a single jilant of the female, after having many years before sought fruitlessly for it, among many thousands of plants around Gottingen. (See Gard. vol. vi. p. 419, 420.) EngrttvtTigs. Thouin and Jaume St. Hilaire, ; the plates in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., ; and ourji^. 15G3. in which a represents the female catkins with the blossoms expanded; b, tbe'female catkins with seeds ripe ; c, a portion of the female catkin of the natural size ; d, a single flower of the natural size ; and e, a single flower 1303. p. fastigi
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