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I.—AMERICAN BROAD-LEAVED TREES. 
The Tulip Tree (Liriodendron Tulipifera, L.).—This is one of the 
most important broad-leaved timber trees of North America, and a 
large amount of timber finds its way annually into the markets of 
the United Kingdom under the names of yellow poplar, white 
poplar, canary whitewood and white wood. The wood is described 
as being light, fine and straight-grained, easily worked and yields 
a good finish. Some qualities are white, others pale yellow and 
others marked with brown. It is in request for many of the uses 
to which the better classes of deal are put in the interior finish of 
houses, such as doors, panels, wainscoting and casing for electric- 
light wires, while it enters largely into the cabinet trade both as a 
foundation for veneer and for constructive purposes. full 
description of the wood and its uses is given in Hough’s “ American 
oods,” i, pp. 40-42. The current price for the wood in London, 
according to Messrs. Churchill & Sim’s Wood Circular for April 
4th, is from 1s. 6d. to 1s. 9d. a cubic foot for logs. 
The species has a wide distribution in N. America, for it 
occurs from southern Canada to N. Florida and $8. Alabama. 
Average-sized trees would appear to be from 100 to 125 feet 
high, with a diameter of from 3 to 6 feet, the boles being 
clear of branches for two-thirds of their height. Under the 
most favourable conditions, however, when growing in the valleys 
of the Southern States, it is found from 160 to 190 feet high 
with a trunk up to 10 feet in diameter. J. N., writing in 
- Woods and Forests” for 1884, p. 446, describes a tulip tree 
which he saw in Virginia as being 210 feet high, branchless for 100 
feet, 42 feet in girth at 5 feet from the ground, with a branch 
spread of 150 feet. In the “ Garden and Forest” for 1897, p. 458, 
a log exhibited at the Nashville Exhibition, by the Nashville 
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Co., is mentioned which 
measured 42 feet in length, 10 feet 4 inches in diameter at the butt, 
and 7 feet at the small end. It was estimated to contain 1260 
m 
ungland, but good examples have been noted in Scotland. It is 
difficult to form an accurate idea of the age of the larger trees, but 
they probably range from 100 to 150 years. This would place the 
maturing age in England about on a level with that of beech. 
A full account of the tulip tree and its behaviour in the British 
Isles, together with particulars of many large trees, is given i 
“Trees of Great Britain and Ireland,” i., pp. 65-74. The largest tree 
mentioned, now dead, grew at Stowe, near Buckingham. Mr. Elwes 
found this tree to be 107 feet high with a clear bole of 30 feet and 
a girth of 13 feet at 5 feet from the base and 21 feet 4 inches near 
the ground, A tree growing at Leonardslee, the seat of Sir E. 
Loder, Bart., near Horsham, when measured in 1903, was 97 feet 
