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long and narrow, imbricated and cohering together in an elongated cone, 

 separating, when dry, from each other and from the long, slender axis 

 in fruit, and falling away whole like a samara or key ; one to two-seeded 

 in the small cavity at the base : buds, flat, sheathed by the successive pairs 

 of broad, flat stipules, joined at their edges. The folded leaves bent 

 down on the petiole, so that their apex points to the bud. The classical 

 name is derived from the Greek words signifying lily and tree. 



A most beautiful tree, sometimes 140 feet high, and 8 or 9 in 

 diameter, in the Western States, (where it is wrongly called Poplar.) 

 Leaves very smooth, with two lateral lobes near the base, and two at the 

 point, which appears cut off by a shallow notch ; the corolla is two 

 mches broad, greenish yellow, marked with orange. — (Gray's Manual of 

 the Botany of the Northern States.) 



Hurlburt says, of the Tulip Tree, " it is abundant in the south 

 western counties of Upper Canada ; weight, 30 lbs. to the cubic foot 

 much used in building and cabinet work. 



In Professor Macoun's Catalogue, (1883) the following valuable 

 information is given : — " In rich soil throughout the Western Peninsula 

 of Ontario. A noble tree in the thick forest west of St. Thomas, and 

 a beautiful object when covered with its large Tulip-shaped flowers in 

 the middle of June ; cultivated in Prince Edward County, where it 

 flowers freely." 



Sugar Maple — Hard Maple — Rock Maple — Acer saccharinum, (L.) 



"Dark .\Lo pie where the wood-thrush sings." — Bryant. 



While we regard the Pine as one of the greatest sources of wealth 

 to Canada, we must not lose sight of the Sugar Maple, the next in 

 commercial value as respects its uses as timber, as fire-wood, its house- 

 hold worth in the production of sugar, and as an ornament to the 

 country by its noble form and rich masses of verdure. 



The Maple bec.mes a beautiful object under cultivation. No 

 longer drawn up to an unnatural height as in the dense shade of the 

 forest, where its outline can scarcely be distinguished from the 

 surrounding trees, it developcs into a grand and sightly object, forming 

 a finely rounded head, the long rather slender branches curving upwards 

 and outwards, clothed with rich masses of dark green foliage ; leaves 

 broad, smooth on the surface, divided into three principal pointed lobes 

 and two inferior ones at the base. A great boon to the cattle, that seek 

 the deep cool shade from the noon-day heat of a Canadian Summer 

 sun, is a group of these noble trees : but it is a blessing which the too 

 greedy farmer often denies to his beasts, grudging the space, that is 

 ■ occupied by the trees, from the money producing cereals. 



