SOME TREES OF INDIANA. 
By F. M. ANDREWS. 
Some trees that are exceptional for size, or for some other facts, 
have been mentioned from time to time. A few of these, together with 
some facts, will be briefly referred to here. 
One of our largest and most beautiful trees, Liriodendron Tulipifera 
L., has attained, as is well known, great dimensions both in height and 
in diameter. Britton’ in his Illustrated Flora gives this tree often a 
height of 190 feet and a diameter of 12 feet. A tree of Liriodendron 
Tulipifera L. having a diameter of 11 feet was cut down, a good many 
years ago, about one mile north of Bloomington, Indiana. It divided 
into two large branches some considerable distance above the ground 
and probably attained a height of 175 feet. Sargent states that this 
species of tree may sometimes attain a height of 200 feet. 
In describing Liriodendron Tulipifera, Wood’ says: ‘Near Bloom- 
ington, Indiana, we measured a tree of this species which had been 
recently felled. Its circumference four feet from the ground was 25 
feet; 80 feet from the ground its dimension was five feet; the whole 
height was 125 feet. The trunk was perfect, straight and cylindric.” 
When in the lumber business a good many years ago, I cut inte 
lumber many fine specimens of this species. I recall one specimen which 
was seven feet in diameter three and one-half feet from the ground. 
The trunk was straight and was free of all branches for a height of 
90 feet, where it was three feet in diameter. Where this tree was cut 
off three and one-half feet from the ground, a cavity some inches in 
size was found about 10 inches from the circumference, which had been 
chopped out many years before. Evidently the party who had chopped 
out the block of wood concluded that it would not split easily enough 
for the making of fence rails, which was a necessary occupation in 
that day. The wound thus made had grown completely over in the 
usual manner and left no trace of its existence on the surface of the 
trunk. The Fifteenth Annual Report of the Indiana Board of Forestry 
shows on page 107 a partial view of a yellow poplar seven feet in 
diameter. No sawmills exist in this part of the country that would saw 
1N. L. Britton and A. Brown, An Illustrated Flora of the U. S. and Canada, 1913. 
Second Edition, Vol. II, p. 63. 
°C. S. Sargent, Manual of the Trees of North America, 1905, p. 325. 
3 Alphonso Wood, Class Book of Botany, 1868, p. 215. 
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