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cannot get to them, obfervlng to keep every fort fe- I and rob it of its nouriPnmcnr, from a fear of t:tki-cr 

 parate, but they Ihould not be kept too clofe from ' Jown the neighbouring trees, k-ll by adinirJno- tl-r 



' ^ ' ' '^ " co]d air to the Tuhp-trce it woukl injure it. ^ 



The young n:ioots of this tree are covered w'lh a 

 fmooth purplifli bark ; they are garniihed wi:U hur. 

 leaves, whofe foot-dalks are four^inches ]on^ 



the air, nor fuffered to lie in heaps together, left rhey 

 fliould grow mouldy, for if any of the roots once take 

 the mould, they commonly rot when they are plant- 

 ed again, if not before. 

 The offsets of thefe roots, which are not large enough 



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to produce flowers the fucceeding year, fliould be al- 

 fo put by themfelves, keeping each ibrt diftindt ; thefe 

 ihould be planted a month earlier in autumn than 

 the blowing roots, in particular beds by themfelves 

 in the flower-nurfery, where they may not be expofed 

 to public view ; but the earth of the beds fliould be 

 prepared for them in the fame manner as for larger 

 roots, though thefe fhould not be planted above five 

 inches deep, becaufe they are not ftrong enough to 

 pu(h through fo great covering of the earth as the old 

 roots J they may be placed much nearer together than 

 ' thofe which are to flower, and in one year moft of them 

 will become ftrong enough to flower, when they may 

 be removed into the flower-garden, and placed in the 

 beds amongft thofe of the fame kinds, 

 TULIPIFERA. Herm. Hort. Leyd. Boerh. Ind. 

 Plant. II. p. 262. Liriodendrum. Lin. Gen. Plant. 

 609. [of Tulipa, a Tulip, and fero, LaL to bear.] 



long rrom tnc toot-ltalk to the 

 having a ftrong midrib, which is formed bv 



The Tulip-tree. 



The Chara 



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are ranged alternate ; the leaves are of a finribr f ,nr 

 being divided into three lobes ; the middle lobe is 

 blunt and hollov/ed at the point, appearino- as if jc 

 had been cat with fcifilirs. The tv/o fide fobes are 

 rounded, and end in blunt points. The leaves a-c 

 from four to five inches broad near their bale, and 

 about four inches long from the foot-ftalk 

 point 



the prolongation of the foot ftalk. From the midrib 

 run many tranfverfe veins to the borders, whicli ra- 

 mify into feveral fmallcr. The upper furfacc of the 

 leaves is fmooth, and of a lucid green, the under is 

 of a pale green. The flowers are produced at the end 

 of the branches -, they are compofed of fix petals, 

 three without, and three within, which form a fort 

 of bell-fhaped flower, from whence the inhabitants of 

 North America gave it the title of Tulip. Thefe pe- 

 tals are marked with green, yellow, and red fpots,, 

 fo make a fine appearance when the trees are well 



The time of this tree's fiov/er- 

 ing is in July, and when the flowers drop, the mer- 

 men fvvells and forms a kind of cone, but thefe do^not 

 ripen in Efigland. 



Mr. Catefby, in his Natural Hiftory of Carolina, &c. 

 fays, There are fome of thefe trees in America, which 

 are thirty feet in circumference ; that th 

 unequal and irregular, making feveral bends^'or el- 



charged v/ith flowers. 





boughs are 



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The proper involucrum of the flower is compofed of two 

 angular leaves^ which fall off \ the empalement is compofed 

 of three oblong plain leaves like petals^ which fall away, 

 ^hefloxver is nearly of the hell-fjjape^ and has fix petals^ 

 which are ohtufe and channelled at their hafe \ the three 

 enter fall off \ it has a great number of narrow ft amina^ 

 ivhich are infer ted to the receptacle of the flower^ having 

 long narrow fummits f aft ened to their ft de^ andfnanyger- 

 men difpofed in a conc^ having no ftyle^ crowned by a ftngle 

 globular ftigma, The germen afterward become fcaly feeds ^ 

 lying over each other like the fcales of ftfhy and form the 

 refemblance of a cone. ^ .-. . 



This genus of plants is ranged in the feventh feftion 



of Linnxus's thirteenth clafs, which includes thofe 

 plants whofe flowers have many male and female parts. 

 He has altered the title of it to Liriodendrum, but as 

 the flowers of this tree have as little refemiblance of a -.-'niay Be' either fown in pots or tubs fiiled with lio-hc 



bov/s, which render the trees diftinguifliable at a great 

 diftance, even when they have no leaves upon them. 

 They are found in mod parts of the northern conti- 

 nent of America, from the Cape of Florida to New 

 ■''England, where the timber is of great ufe, particu- 

 ^. larly for making of periaugues, the trunks of thefe 

 -being large enough to be hollowed into the Ihape of 

 ■ thofe boats, fo they are of one piece. --■; 



This tree is propagated by feeds, which are now an- 

 nually imported in great plenty from America. Tliefe 



Lily, as they haVe of a Tulip, the firft title may be as 

 ^^ well continued," efpecially as it has teen long kriown 



in Europe by the title Tulipifera. 



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We have but one Species of this genus, viz. ' 

 Tulipifera {Liriodendrcn.) The Tulip-trec. Tulipifera 



arbor Virginiana. H. L. The Virginia Ttdip-tree *, and \ gkiffcs of the hoi-bed Ihould be fliaded from the fun 



earth. from the kitchen-garden, or in a bed in the full 

 rrg^'ound.' Thofe which are fov^n in the firll way, may 

 ^,:'^. be* placed on a gentle hot-bed, which will forward 



their pjrowth, lb that the plants v;ill acquire more 



If tliey are thus treated, the 



ftrength bcfi^-c winter. 



hy Linn^us Liricdendron foliis lobatis. Lin. Sp. Plant, 



This is a native of North America, where it grows fo 

 large as to be a tree of the firfl: magnitude, and is gene- 

 rally known thro' all the Englifli fettlements by the title 

 of Poplar. ' Of late years there has been great num- 

 'ters' of thefe trees raifed from ^ feeds in theEnglifh 

 ^ gardens^ 10 that now they are become common m the 

 [ nurleries about London, arid there are many of the 

 trees in fevej-al parts of England which do annually 

 produce flowers. ' The firfl; tree of this kind which 

 flowered here, was in the gardens of the late Earl of 

 ■ Peterborough, af Parfons Green near Fulham, which 

 ^ was planted in a wildernefs among other trees ; 'before 

 .this was planted in theopen air, thefew plants which- 

 were then in the Englifh gardens, were planted in pots 

 ■ and houfed in winter, fuppofing they were too tender 

 ^ to live in the open air j but this tree foon after it was 

 ' placed in the full ground, convincing the gardeners 

 ^ of their mifl:ake, by the great progrefs it made, while 

 ' thofe which were kept in pots and tubs increafed 

 "- Howly in their growth •, fo that afterward there were 

 ^* ''many others planted m the full ground, which are now 

 ^ arrived to a large fize, efpecially thofe which were 

 planted in a moift foil. One of the handfomeft: trees 



every day, and the earth in the pots Ihould befre- 

 Guentiy refreflied with water, for unlefs it is kept 



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of this kind near London, is in the garden of Wal- 

 ^ham Abbey j and at Wilton, the feat of the Earl of 

 Pembroke^ there are fome trees of great bulk •, but 

 the old tree at Parfons Green is quite deftroyed, by 



the other trees which were fufFered to" over-hang it. 



. moift, the feeds will not grow; "but this muft be done 

 with care, fo as not to make it too wet, which will 

 rot the feeds. When the plants appear, they muft be 

 ftill ihaded in the heat of the day from the fun, but 

 frefh'air muft be admitted daily to prevent their draw- 

 ■ irig iip w>ak, and as the feafon advances, they muft 

 be gradually hardened to bear the open air. While 

 the plants are young, they do not care for much fun, 

 ■ fo they Ihould be either fliaded cr placed where the 

 .morning fun only ftiines upon them; they muft alfo 

 ' 'be'cdnftantly fupplied with water, but not have it in 

 . too great plenty. ^ As the young plants commonly 

 continue grow'ing late in the fummcr, fo when there 

 happens early frofts in autumn, it ofren kills their 

 tender tops, whicli occafions their dying down acon- 

 fiderable length in wmter ; therefore they fticuld be 

 'carefully o-uarded ao-ainft thefe firft frofts, which are 

 always more hurtful to them than h^Tder frofts after- 

 ward, v/hen their flioots are better hardened -, how- 

 he plants come up, it will 



be the better way to Ihelrcr them in a common hot- 

 bed frame, or to arch them bver'with hoops, und 

 cover them with mats, expofing them always to the 



ever, the firft winter after t 



open air in mild weather. 



■ The following fpring, juft before the plants begin to 



Ihoot, they fhould be tranfpianted into nariery-beds, 



tn a fheltered fituation, wherethev are not too mych 



expofed to the fun. The foil of thefe beds fhould be 



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