. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. '7i As early as March the shining brown scales which cover its flower-buds begin to respond to the tempered atmosphere. Then they split open and are among the first to send into the world their grey and rosy-tinted offsprings. LOMBARDY POPLAR, (r/a/e CXL/X.) Popiilus dilatata. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 1/ liiOW. lupering: brunches, Ptrpe n die ular. 30-60 yVf'/. Fiiintcd. April, May. Bark: roughish. Branches: growing closely together. Buds: possessing a glutinous substance, like balsa
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. '7i As early as March the shining brown scales which cover its flower-buds begin to respond to the tempered atmosphere. Then they split open and are among the first to send into the world their grey and rosy-tinted offsprings. LOMBARDY POPLAR, (r/a/e CXL/X.) Popiilus dilatata. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 1/ liiOW. lupering: brunches, Ptrpe n die ular. 30-60 yVf'/. Fiiintcd. April, May. Bark: roughish. Branches: growing closely together. Buds: possessing a glutinous substance, like balsam. Leaves : simple; alternate; with petioles which are flattened sidewise; very broadly oval ; pointed at the ape.\ and at the base; finely serrate; smooth. Flmvers : dioecious ; growing in catkins. As in the hmnan family, we find that every tree has its own particular appearance,—one to which it remains true both in sunshine and in shade. Even although it loses its leaves in winter time, its outline is then quite as well known to tree lovers as when it is fully clothed with verdure. In its manner of growth there is hardly any tree that is more distinct than the Lombardy poplar, and it is perhaps for this reason that it is so generally known. Constantly it is being referred to as though it were the only species of poplar in existence. About one hundred years ago it was imported from Italy and soon began to be much planted in this country. Through cultivation it has spread widely and also by the means it em- ploys of sending up shoots from its buried parts. pppt{iZs At present it is not nearly so much seen as formerly ; dtintnta. for insects have bored into its trunk and preyed greatly upon its foliage. In parts of New Jersey, where it was once almost as common as the indigenous trees, it is now rarely seen. Not by all is the symmetrical, uncompromising aspect of the tree admired, nor does its stiff outline blend with every variety of landscape; but it is beloved by many that
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