In a message dated 9/12/2004 11:59:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Also when and what new animal, plant, or
> disease species have arrived or been discovered to have arrived in
> historic times.
The fast-growing silver poplar tree, (not the native "tulip poplar"), a
relative of the cotton wood, was brought to Virginia and other colonies by the
colonists.  Since it sends up new trees from the roots, it quickly escaped into
the wild and formed groves.
John Shroeder

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