Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — White Poplar. [ARTICLE]

White Poplar.

There is a beautiful custom Ln some of the northern parts of Europe. There the white poplar, in .good soil, increases a shilling in value every year. The trees are gener illy cut down at the nge of twenty years, as they are then supposed to have attained their full growth. When a daughter is born in the family of a respectabld farmer.the father, as soon as the season will permit, plants a thousand young trees, which are to (institute the dowry of the maiden, which grow as she grows and increase in height and value as her virtues and beauty increase.”