THE TULIP TREE 



H ADORNING nearly every 

 gentleman's park in Europe, 

 wherever the soil and climate 

 prove congenial to it, the tulip 

 tree is nevertheless but little known in 

 this its native land. It is a pity, that 



found throughout the Western Pen- 

 insula of Ontario, more especially in 

 the South-western counties, where it was 

 quite abundant, and in the thick forest 

 that then existed west of St. Thomas. 

 It did not, however, make its habitat 



Fig. 1384.— The Tdlip Tree. 



while we have been availing ourselves 

 of the beauties and charms of trees, 

 plants and shrubs, from far off China and 

 Japan, and, indeed, from all parts of 

 the world, we have yet lost sight of one 

 of our own trees of surpassing attractive- 

 ness and grandeur. In days gone by, 

 the Tulip tree, now so rare, was to be 



anywhere east of Toronto, except under 

 cultivation in Prince Edward County, 

 where it succeeded well. With its truly 

 tropical splendor of color in flower and 

 foliage, and its form full of grace and 

 majesty in all its parts, it well deserves 

 to be rescued from its present oblivion, 

 and to be installed as one of our most 



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