TREES AND SHRUBS 



TULIP TREE, Liriodendron tuhpifera. 



Gardens. June, July. This elegant, hardy, deciduous tree, with fragrant, 

 tulip-like flowers, somewhat resembles a Plane in growth. It thrives best 

 in a deep loamy soil and a sheltered, sunny position. Seeds are sown in 

 a rather moist sandy soil in a shady spot in autumn ; layering may be done 

 in October or November. 



Flowers greenish-yellow, spotted with various colours, tulip-like, very 

 fragrant, 2 ins. high, solitary, terminal, with two deciduous bracts ; Sepals 3, 

 petaloid, rerlexed ; Petals 6, in two series ; Stamens indefinite, hypogynous ; 

 .liit hers linear, extrorse ; Carpels in an oblong spike, 2-seeded ; Fruit a cone- 

 like eta;rio of achenes, samaroid, indehiscent, never ripening in England. 



Leaves alternate, simple, saddle-shaped, 3-lobed, terminal lobe emarginately 

 truncate, lateral lobes with two sinuses, glabrous, bright green above, lighter 

 beneath, stipulate in bud. Autumn tint brilliant golden yellow. 



A deciduous tree, 75-100 ft. ; Branchlets pendent ; Bark thin and scaly 

 on young trees, on older trees deeply furrowed, brown ; Buds compressed 

 laterally, dark red, glaucous; Wood white, light and tough, taking a good 

 polish ; used for flooring and inside work. 



A native of N. America, where it attains a height of 150-200 ft. ; intro- 

 duced 1688 ; also known as Saddle Tree, from shape of leaves. Generic 

 name derived from Greek lirion, a lily, and dendron, a tree. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I ThalamiflorcB 



Natural Order . . . Calycanthacece 



Shrubs with square stems, and opposite, entire, extipulate leaves; Flowers 



solitary and lurid; numerous Bracts, Sepals, and Petals, similar and merging 



into each other, springing from fleshy receptacle which surrounds the carpels ; 



Stamens numerous ; Ovary inferior by up-growth and adhesion of receptacle ; 



Fruit a capsule. 



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