368 SYLVAN SKETCHES. 



Mr. Marshall describes this tree as seventy or eighty 

 feet high ; and Catesby says some of them are thirty 

 feet in circumference in America, and that the timber is 

 used in New England for periagues ; the trunk being 

 large enough to be hollowed out into those boats, which 

 are made of one piece, and will carry a number of men. 



" This is,"" says Martyn, " a tree of extraordinary 

 beauty and stateliness, and highly deserves a place in all 

 noble and elegant plantations." 



The Oriental Tulip tree, L. Hlifera, is a smaller tree, 

 with a blossom of nine petals, a native of China. 



