THE AMERICAN TULIP TREE 



One of the handsomest of American trees, the Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tidipifera), known 

 in some parts of this country as Tuhp Poplar or Whitewood, is of beautiful growth and 

 produces flowers which make it justly admired. It is one of the fastest growing and tallest 

 of forest trees and greatly resembles the Magnolia in general appearance. The flowers, 

 which are borne on the young growth of the current season, are bell-shaped and upright, 

 solitary and of a greenish-yellow color, orange within the base, and entirely odorless. The 

 photograph was taken in Hamilton County, New York, (Fig. 9.) 



