210 FLORA'S LEXICON. 



ULIP TREE. Liriodendron Tulipifera. 

 Class 13, POLYANDRIA. Order : POLYGYNIA. 

 The tulip-tree, improperly but very com- 

 monly called poplar, is abundant in fertile 

 soils, throughout the middle and western 

 states. It grows to the height of 80 or 100 

 feet, with a trunk three feet and upwards 

 in diameter. The wood is of excellent quality, and is used for 

 a great variety of purposes, even forming an article of export to 

 the north. In the west it supplies the place of the pine, and 

 red and white cedars. 



RURAL HAPPINESS. 



Ye green-robed Dryads, oft at dusky eve 

 By wondering shepherds seen, to forest brown, 

 To unfrequented meads, and pathless wilds, 

 Lead me from gardens deck'd with art's vain pomps. 

 Can gilt alcoves, can marble-mimic gods, 

 Parterres embroider'd, obelisks, and urns 

 Of high relief: can the long, spreading lake, 

 Or vista lessening to the sight; can Stow, 

 With all her Attic fanes, such raptures raise, 

 As the thrush-haunted copse, where lightly leaps 

 The fearful fawn the rustling leaves along, 

 And the brisk squirrel sports from bough to bough, 

 While from an hollow oak, whose naked roots 

 O'erhang a pensive rill, the busy bees 

 Hum drowsy lullabies ? The bards of old, 

 Fair Nature's friends, sought such retreats, to charm 

 Sweet Echo with her songs; oft, too, they met 

 In summer evenings, near sequester'd bowers, 

 Or mountain-nymph, or muse, and eager learn'd 

 The moral strains she taught to mend mankind. 



WARTON. 



