TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. 



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leaves of this tree when it is approached for the first time, 

 and the fancy is bred that the world would be a very different 

 place if trees should ever lose 

 their meek defenselessness and 

 strut about arranging things 

 to suit themselves. Man 

 would appear very small then, 

 while the tulip tree might be 

 the king of the globe. It is a 

 tree that at all times is readily 

 recognised; but in the spring, 

 when it is covered with its 

 tulip-like flowers, it is truly a 

 surprising sight. As freely 

 and unconsciously the great 

 structure throws out its bloom 

 as though it were some lively, 

 wayside flower. From the col- 

 oured illustration the imagina- 

 tion can picture the effect so 

 great a number of the flowers 

 would produce. In cultiva- 

 tion the tree is a great favour- 

 ite and has, especially when 

 young, a high-bred expression. 

 It is hardy, grows rapidly and becomes without doubt one of 

 the largest and most beautiful of the American forest. Often 

 when growing in the " open " it is clothed to the ground. As 

 a timber tree it is valuable, and is well adapted for making the 

 curved panels in carriages. By the aborigines it was used for 

 the frames of their canoes. In many parts of the South the 

 name yellow poplar clings to the tree. It originated because 

 the leaves have long petioles that aid them to tremble in the 

 wind. It is however not a desirable one and should be rejected. 

 At Craggy Mountain, twelve miles north-east of Asheville, 



Liriodendron Tulipifera. 



