98 Liriodendron Tulipifera. ¥ 
The fruit is formed of numerous, long, narrow, thin scales, at- 
tached to a.common axis, and imbricated in the form of a cone, vary- 
ing from two to three inches in length, and pointed at the sum- 
mit. When the cones are ‘well filled, each one is composed of sixty 
or seventy seeds, ony one-third part of which are capable of vegeta- 
tion, and in certain seasons, not more than seven or eight.* — 
It is aacieasa d also, thyts in the course of the first ten years after 
tulip tree h to produce fruit, almost the whole of the 
| that th 7 Largest trees with the highest branches 
and. d most protic x 
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| There ; are two waite of this tree as mentioned by Pursh: 
one eerie leaves with acute lobes, and the other having the lobes 
ise. One of these varieties: is figured by Plukenet, in his Phy- 
Ee t, 68, f. 3, and it differs much from the common kind, 
having four slight lobes instead of two great ones at each side of the 
leaf. It is remarked that in the gardens in England, the leaves-occa- 
sionally have ie side es dhe . ROMeY Olas spunea 
ne 
apne by one of these different 
prepared to.say. Perhaps not. If I were 
A be al 
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