^4 TOW A ACADF.MY OF SCI F.N'CKS. 



nialio£r:niy furniture l)eiiii>" made from this species. The wood 

 takes a hiiih jjolish aud maintains well it^s positiou as ^i rival 

 to cherry. 



Two species of forest tretw, one t>f <>Teat economic value the- 

 othci- of none, occur on Crowley's Kid_<>-e aud (me of them is. 

 found nowhere else in the State. These are the so-called 

 "•yellow pophir" — Linodendron fulijnfera — and the Ameri- 

 can beech — Fagus ferruginea. The iirst, the tuiip tree^ 

 occurs throuirhout Crowley's Kidf^e,.alon<>' its l)ase on either 

 side. XotM'ithstandinii- that inuncnse (piantities have l)ee!B 

 removed and sold in northern ntarke^ts under the name of 

 '•[)o|)}ar" and "yellow poplar" immense (juantities are still 

 standing-, es]>ecially in sections somewhat removed from the 

 railroads. It is a noble tree, often one hundred feet hi«-h 

 and with its oreat trnidv extendini>-, fre(juently with slioht 

 variation in diameter and devoid of branches, for forty to 

 sixty feet, is peculiarly valuable for many economic uses. I 

 do not know how or wlw the tulip tree came to be called a 

 poplar. It is one of the Magnohareau while the poplar pro- 

 per belonops to the Sahcacem — two families botanicalh" far 

 removed and utterly unlike. But by the name of "pophir'" 

 it has long- been known in eastern Arkansas and will so be 

 known, probably, so lont>- as suificiently abundant to attract 

 attention. 



The beech, of which no use is nnide except for firewood, is 

 found on both slo[)es of Crowley's Hidoe and occasionally, 

 thouidi sparin<rly, on its summit. Jt attains wonderful pro- 

 portions equal to those attained by the same species in south- 

 ern N'eAV Enoland and central New York, thouiih this area 

 appears to be (piite the limit of its sr)uthern distril)uti()n in 

 the southwest. A peculiar feature of very many of the lari;-er 

 trees of this form is that all are hollow or if not hollow the 

 heart is dead. Whether this be characteristic also, of the 

 species as it occurs in New Eui^land aud New York tlK> 



