Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — The American Poplar. [ARTICLE]

The American Poplar.

The native poplar or American tulip tree grows to fine size and shape in these parts, and is one of the noblest of ornamental shade trees. It has been famous wherever it is native for the height and straightness of its silvery trunk and the rich green of its foilage. One of the most notable tulip trees, and one of the largest trees ever measured in the East, was the great poplar of Dinwiddle Court House. It measured forty-three feet eight inches in circumference three feet from the pones, and rose perpendicularly without knot or blemish ninety feet to its first limb. It is said that the diameter of the tree increased ten feet in thirty years.— [New York Sun.