yo The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



Mr. Bullen says that it grows well in heavy clay in the damp and smoky 

 climate of Glasgow, and a tree is mentioned at the Grove, Stanmore, on damp, 

 gravelly clay, which in 1879 was 'j'j feet high by 9^ in girth. 



The tulip tree has been much recommended for planting in towns, and 

 specimens may be seen in London at Victoria Park, Manor House Gardens, 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Waterloo Park, Clissold Park, etc. 



Mr. Hovey says that in America it is not so much planted for ornament as it 

 deserves to be, presumably because American planters desire a quick effect, and that 

 it does not transplant well after it is 4-6 feet high ; but that it grows on gravel, sand, 

 peat, or clay, and is not very particular in that climate as to soil. He has known it 

 grow 30 feet high and more in 20 years. 



It is very liable to be attacked by rabbits, which eat the bark even of large 

 trees, and I have seen several which have been killed or much injured in this way. 



Remarkable Trees 



Though this tree is one of the handsomest when in flower, stateliest in habit, 

 and most beautiful in the autumn tints of its leaves, it is not now planted in 

 England nearly as much as it was a hundred years and more ago, having, like so 

 many other fine hard-wooded trees, been supplanted by conifers and flowering shrubs, 

 which are easier to raise and more profitable to the nurserymen, who now appear to 

 cater rather for the requirements of owners of villas and small gardens than for those 

 of larger places. But though the tulip tree loves a hot summer, it endures the 

 most severe winter frosts of our climate without injury, and in a suitable soil 

 grows in some parts of the southern counties, after it is once established, to a great 

 size. 



The largest living specimen I know of in England is at Woolbeding, in Sussex, 

 the seat of Colonel Lascelles, and measures 105 feet by 17. Though not so perfect in 

 shape as some others, it is a very beautiful tree, andv seemed, when I saw it in 1903, 

 to be in good health. It grows on a deep, alluvial, sandy soil, which suits plane 

 trees and rhododendrons very well (Plate 25). 



There was even a larger one at Stowe near Buckingham, which when I saw 

 it in 1905 was dead, apparently barked at the base by rabbits. It was at least 107 

 feet high, with a bole of about 30 feet, and a girth of 1 3 feet at 5 feet, and 2 1 feet 

 4 inches at the ground. 



Another very fine tree is at Leonardslee, near Horsham, the seat of Sir Edmund 

 Loder, Bart., also in Sussex, and is growing at an elevation of 400-500 feet on soil 

 which, though very favovrable to rhododendrons, is too poor to grow either oak, 

 birch, or larch to the same size in the same time. Sir E. Loder tells me that 

 the tree cannot be more than 90 years old, and it is now 97 feet high, with a 

 perfectly clean, straight trunk 25-30 feet high, which towers above all the native 

 trees of the district (Plate 27). 



At Horsham Park, the residence of R. H, Hurst, Esq., is a very fine and sym- 

 metrical tree which I measured rather hastily, as over 100 feet in height by 15 in girth. 



