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decidedly the most stately tree in North America. 

 When standing alone, and encouraged in its lateral 

 growth, it will indeed often produce a lower head, but 

 its tendency is to rise, and it only exhibits itself in all 

 its stateliness and majesty when, supported on such a 

 noble columnar trunk, it towers far above the heads of 

 its neighbors of the park or forest. Even when at its 

 loftiest elevation, its large specious blossoms, which, 

 from their form, one of our poets has likened to the 

 chalice ; 



Through the verdant maze 



The Tulip tree 

 Its golden chalice oft triumphantly displays. 



PICKERING. 



jut out from amid the tufted canopy in the month of June, 

 and glow in richness and beauty. While the tree is less 

 than a foot in diameter, the stem is extremely smooth, and 

 it has almost always a refined and finished appearance. 

 For the lawn or park, we conceive the Tulip tree 

 eminently adapted : its tall upright stem, and handsome 

 summit, contrasting nobly with the spreading forms of most 

 deciduous trees. It should generally stand alone, or near 

 the border of a mass of trees, where it may fully display 

 itself to the eye, and exhibit all its charms from the root 

 to the very summit ; for no tree of the same grandeur and 

 magnitude is so truly beautiful and graceful in every 

 portion of its trunk and branches. Where there is a taste 

 for avenues, the Tulip tree ought by all means to be 

 employed, as it makes a most magnificent overarching 

 canopy of verdure, supported on trunks almost archi- 

 tectural in their symmetry. The leaves also, from their 

 bitterness, are but little liable to the attacks of any insect. 



