This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...tree, the height when full grown generally varying from 80 to 100 feet. Some fine specimens, exceeding the latter altitude, may be seen on the banks of the Thames between Hampton Court and Chertsey. From the extreme rapidity of its growth, this tree is sometimes used to form avenues and decorate pleasuregrounds in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...tree, the height when full grown generally varying from 80 to 100 feet. Some fine specimens, exceeding the latter altitude, may be seen on the banks of the Thames between Hampton Court and Chertsey. From the extreme rapidity of its growth, this tree is sometimes used to form avenues and decorate pleasuregrounds in the immediate vicinity of new mansions, where it is desirable to obtain an ornamental effect in the briefest time possible, though its ultimate picturesque effect is far inferior to that of the more rich and niassive trees, such as the elm and chestnut. As a timber-tree, the White Poplar has some valuable qualities, being light, soft, and smooth, very white in colour, and with a toughness that allows nails to be driven into it near the edge without splitting, so that it is particularly adapted for packing cases. Its whiteness, and the facility with which it is scoured, render it a most excellent wood for the flooring of houses and factories, more especially as it has the property of not taking fire without great difficulty, and of burning very slowly, being in these respects the very opposite of the usual flooring material, deal, whose rapidly combustible nature is well known. This wood is also used as a substitute for that of the lime-tree by carvers and musical-instrument makers. The foliage of the Poplars, and among them, that of the present species, is the resort of an immense number of insects, and especially of the caterpillars belonging to various moths, foremost among which is that named after this tree, the Poplar Hawk-moth, who in the caterpillar state is a fine large fellow, with a rough shagreen-like skin, of bright green colour, speckled with yellow, having seven stripes of the same placed obliquely on each side, and carrying above th...
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