The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 28
e looked down from the bridge on a well-selected group ofround headed trees. The poplar, therefore, would be advantageously plantedwherever there is a continuance of horizontal lines ; but theyshould be so arranged as to form a part of those lines, toseem to grow out of them, rather than to break… … them exactly before it (tf), but they should be at the sides orbehind. The poplar is very generally planted before the cot-tages and residences, which are to be found on the roads a fewmiles from the metropolis; and as forming a part of those re-sidences nothing can be worse; you may see six or…
