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pie and other trees are very successfully transplanted. This, 

 added to the absence of the trees from the forests near our 

 larger cities, where their beauty would soon render them 

 familiar and eagerly sought after, has prevented them from 

 becoming better known and more frequently planted. 



The Tulip tree, (fig. 19,) White Wood, or Poplar, as it is 

 called in the regions where it is most abundant, occupies a 

 most extended range of territory, its northern limit reaching 

 to the southern extremity of Lake Champlain, in lat, 45°, 

 towards the Atlantic, and to Canada West inland. Michaux 

 states the former as its eastern limit ; but Mr. Emerson found 

 it rather abundant on the Westfield River in this State, and 

 also rarely much further east. It is, however, only beyond 

 the Hudson, and two degrees further west, that it is frequently 

 met with and fully developed. It is multiplied in the Middle 

 States, in the upper parts of the Carolinas and of Georgia, 

 and is still more abundant in the Western country, particu- 

 larly Kentucky. It is comparatively rare in Florida, on 

 account of the poorness of the soil, and is less abundant in 

 the Middle and Western States than the oak and the walnut, 

 because it delights only in deep loamy and extremely fertile 

 bottoms that lie along the rivers, and on the borders of great 

 swamps that are enclosed in forests. 



The Tulip tree in the Atlantic States usually attains the 

 height of 70 to 80 feet, with a columnar and magnificent 

 trunk, and a broad, round, and somewhat open head. It 

 branches are thrown out at various angles, though generally 

 ascending, especially in young trees ; the bark is of a dark 

 ash color, smooth till it has acquired considerable size, when 

 it begins to crack, with furrows of greater or less depth, ac- 

 cording to the size and age of the trees. 



The leaves are large, six or eight inches broad, borne on 

 long petioles, alternate, thick, smooth, of a beautiful green 

 tint. They are divided into three lobes, the middle one of 

 which is horizontally notched at its summit, as if cut off, and 

 the two lower ones are rounded at the base ; their peculiar 

 form distinguishing it at once from all other trees. The 

 flowers are large and solitary at the ends of the shoots, nearly 



