TULIP-BEARING LIRIODENDRON. 
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" If Fever's fervid rage 
Glow'd in the boiling veins," ***** 
if * * * * " Anxiously they sought. 
The Liriodendron, with its varied bloom, 
Orange, and green, and gold ;"***** 
# * * * * "To supply 
The place of fam'd Cinchona, whose rough brow 
Now ruddy, and anon with paleness mark'd, 
Drinks in its native bed, the genial gales 
Of mountainous Peru." 
Traits op the Aborigines. 
And even at the present day, in parts of the country where this tree abounds, 
some of the inhabitants steep the bark of the roots with an equal portion of dog- 
wood bark, in brandy, during eight days, and take this tincture as a remedy for 
the intermittent fever. The bark, reduced to powder, and given in substance 
to horses, appears to be a pretty certain remedy for worms. 
In Europe, the uses of the Liriodendron tulipifera are limited almost entirely 
to those of ornament ; for there are numerous trees which would produce excel- 
lent timber, if cut down. We have never heard of any having been felled for 
this purpose. Every possessor of a tulip-tree, in Europe, values it far higher fol- 
ks beauty in a living state, than for its products, or the artificial application of 
them. On the continent, where trees ripen seeds, they may be considered as 
affording some profit from that source. 
