TULIP-BEARING LIRIODENDRON. 29 



" If Fever's fervid rage 

 Glow'd in the boiling veins," ***** 

 :**** " Anxiously lliey sought 

 The Liriodendron, with its varied bloom, 

 Orange, and green, and gold ;" * * * * * 

 ***** "To supply 

 The place of fam'd Cinchona, whose rough brow 

 Now ruddy, and anon with paleness mark'd, 

 Drinks in its native bed, the genial gales 

 Of mountainous Peru." 



Traits of the Aborigines. 



And even at the present day, in parts of the country where this tree abounds, 

 some of the inhabitants steep the bark of the roots with an equal portion of dog- 

 wood bark, in brandy, during eight days, and lake this tincture as a remedy for 

 ihe intermittent fever. The bark, reduced to powder, and given in substance 

 to horses, appears to be a pretty certain remedy for worms. 



In Europe, the uses of the Liriodendron tuUpifera are Hmited almost entirely 

 to those of ornament ; for there are numerous trees which would produce excel- 

 lent timber, if cut down. We have never heard of any having been felled for 

 this purpose. Every possessor of a tulip-tree, in Europe, values it far higher for 

 its beauty in a living state, than for its products, or the artificial application of 

 them. On the continent, where trees ripen seedS; they may be considered as 

 affording some profit from that source. 



