| Show There cametime after the 1920s when the trees were beginning to show many dying limbs They were mostly ending their life span of fifty years and also most of the trees were infested with the dreaded tree cankor Some trees in the town were cut about one-half way down on the tree and for the next few years the tree would be full and green again until those short limbs in turn began to die as well down to the trunk Our trees along the ditch bank my father cut completely to the ground Each year he would cut one tree and use it for firewood The Poplars made good wood to burn in our stoves to cook our food and to keep us warm during the winter After the large tree had been cut it was dragged into the yard byteam of horses There in the He sawed yard my father would cut up the tree the large trunk in foot-long slices and then with an axe he would cut these large pieces into small stove-size pieces The wood was pretty and white withreally good fresh smell The pieces were nice to feel and to handle After all the small pieces were cut he would then measurevery large circle on the smooth ground There many pieces were laid side by side The small end out would be laid row around row until the wood pile was built as high as the reach Then the rest of the hundreds of pieces were piled in the center of the neat wall of wood My fatherwood pile waswork of art He wasvery creative craftsman and builder He took great pride in his wood piles made of beautiful white tree fresh The wood Poplar They are or genus Populus plentiful in is Italy European France and Germany They line the river banks such as the Seine near Paris and the Rhine in Germany and many other places and The there Poplar are tree some first was records of found the tree in Persia being grown They say that the in many places in the Far East discoverers took them to Italy where they flourished and were named the Lombardy Poplar by the Italianms It is said that Napoleon saw the trees on his He brought the fast-growing invasion of Italy in 1794 48 |
