2Q SILYA OF NORTH AMERICA. magxoliace.e. 



John TradescanV ^to visited America about tlie middle of tlie seventeenth century, sent several 

 plants from this country to England, and the Tulip-tree was perhaps among them.^ It appeared in 

 several English gardens soon after Tradescant's return from America, and was cultivated by Bishop 

 Compton at Fulham as early as 1688/ a year later than the date of the publication of Hermann's 

 description, which was drawn up from a tree in the Leyden garden. 



Few permanent varieties of Lhiodendron have been developed in cultivation, although for more 

 than a hundred years it has been a favorite ornamental tree in America and Europe.^ A form with 

 nearly entire leaves, and others ^Aih. the leaves marked with yellow or silver blotches, are known in gai- 

 dens ; and a seedlmg with strictly fastigiate branches appeared a few years ago in the nursery establisli- 

 ment of Simon-Louis at Metz in Germany, where it has been propagated. 



lAriodendron Tulipifera is easily raised from seed,^ the seed germinating during the second year 

 after sowing, and it is easily transplanted. It grows rapidly ; it is extremely hardy, and is one of the 

 most beautiful and distinct American trees for ornamental or roadside planting. 



1 John Tradescant, a Dutch gardener wLo emigrated to England ginia to collect curiosities for this museum, and published in IGoG, 



towards the end of the sixteenth century, obtained in 1629 the title a few years after the death of his father, a catalogue of his plants, 

 of gardener to Charles the First. He had a garden and museum at = Evelyn, Silva, 79. * Miller, Diet. ed. 8. 



Lambeth. His son, the second John Tradescant, traveled in Vir- ^ Kay, Hkt. PL ii. 1798. ^ Cobbett, Woodlands, No. 523. 



EXPLAJ^ATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate XIII. Liriodexdeon Tulipifeea. 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. A winter-bud, natural size. 



Plate XIV. Lirtodexdron Tulipifeea. 



1. A fruit, natural size. 



2. Diagram of tbe flower. 



3. A flower, a sepal and two petals removed, 



4. A stamen, anterior view, enlarged. • 



5. A stamen, posterior view, enlarged. 



6. A pistil, enlarged. 



7. A stigma, enlarged. 



8. Vertical section of an ovary, enlarged. 



9. An ovule, much enlarged. 



10. A carpel, enlarged. 



11. Vertical section o£ a carpel^ enlarged. 



12. A seedj showing the raphe, enlarged. 



13. A seed, showing the side opposite the raphe, enlarged. 



14. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 



15. Cross section of a seed, enlarged. 



16. An embryo, much magnified. 



