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and clay ; the latter soil being rendered free by sand, leaf mould, or manure, 

 and drainage. The situation, when the plant is treated as a bush, ought to be 

 open, in order that the wood may be ripened; and the plant should be 

 detached, in order that it may be covered with foliaire and blossoms on every 

 side. North of London, in most situations, it requires a wall, and few p ants 

 are more deserving of one. Against a wall, it will reach the height of 15 ft. 

 or 20ft. In the London nurseries, it is generally propagated by layers ; but 

 it will also strike by cuttings, both of the ripened and the herbaceous wood. 

 The stools are generally formed in pus ; or, if in the open ground, they 

 are covered with mats during winter. Seeds have been ripened both in Eng- 

 land and France ; and from these plants have been raised in some few nur- 

 series. The plants, whether raised from layers, cuttings, or seed, should 

 always be kept in pots till wanted for final planting. This species often 

 serves as a stock for grafting the other kinds on, which belong to this section. 



GENUS II. 



LIRIODE'NDRON L. THE TULIP TREE. 



Gen. Char. Carpels 1 2-seeded, disposed in spikes, indehiscent, deciduous, 

 drawn out into a wing at the apex. Calyx of 3 deciduous sepals. Coru/la 

 of 6 petals, conniving into a bell-shaped flower. (Don's Mill., i. p. 86.) 

 There is only one species ; a deciduous tree of the first rank, native 

 of North America. 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; 3-lobed, the terminal lobe 

 emarginately truncate, the lateral ones with two sinuses. Stipules flat. 

 Flowers terminal, solitary, greenish yellow, orange within. The only spe- 

 cies in British gardens is the Liriodendron Tulipifera. 



*t 1. LIRIODE'NDRON TULIPI'FERA L. The Tulip-bearing Liriodendron, or 



Tulip Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 755. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 82. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 86. 



Synonymes. The Poplar, White Wood, Canoe Wood, the Tulip Tree, Amer. ; Virginian Poplar, 

 Tulip-hearing Lily Tree, Saddle Tree, Eng. ; Tulipier de Virginie, Fr. ; Virginischer Tulipeer- 

 bAum, Ger. 



Derivation. This tree is called Liriodendron, from leirion, a lily, and dendron, a tree ; from the 

 flowers resembling those of a lily, though more correctly those of a tulip, as the specific name im- 

 plies. It is called Pcplar, from its general resemblance to trees of that genus ; White Wood, from 

 the colour of its timber ; Canoe Wood, from the use to which it is applied by the native Indians : 

 Tulip Tree, from its tulip-like flowers ; and Saddle Tree, from the form of its leaves. The French 

 and German names are literal translations of the words Virginian tulip tree. 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., 275. ; Duh., torn. 3. t. 18. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit. vol. v. ; and 

 our fig. 46. 



Spec. Char., Sec. Leaves smooth, truncate at the top ; 4-Iobed, resembling a 

 saddle in shape. Flowers large, solitary, terminal ; variegated with green, 

 yellow, and orange colour ; furnished with two deciduous bracteas under 

 flowers. (Dons Mill.) A smooth deciduous tree of large size. Canada 

 to Florida. Height 70ft. to 140ft., and trunk 8 ft. to 9ft. in diameter, 

 in America; 50ft. to 90ft. in England. Introduced in 1688. Flowers 

 greenish yellow without, orange within ; June and July. Strobile brown ; 

 ripe in October. Decaying leaves rich yellow and brown. Naked young 

 wood smooth, and of a mahogany brown. 



Variety. 



t L. T.2 obtusiloba Michx., integrifoIiaHor*., Yellow Wood, or Yellow 

 Poplar, has the leaves with blunter lobes than the species, but is in 

 no other respect different from it. 



Other Varieties. L. T. acutifolia Michx. has never, we believe, been intro- 

 duced. L. T. fidva Hort. has yellow flowers. As the tulip tree is almost 

 always, raised from seeds, it is probable that the flowers of seedlings will 



