Names are often misleading. People have often endeavored to trace some relationship between the curious variety of poplar and some European species, on account of its name. But the Lombardy Poplar is only so called from its having been introduced to England from Lombardy. It has been traced from Persia, where it abounds, and from the Himalayas, to the banks of the Po, and thence to the margin of our English streams. About a hundred years ago Lord Rochfort imported from Turin the first cuttings of the Lombardy Poplar, which introduced here the novelty of a pole clothed with foliage.