Plate 120. TULIP TREE. Sacramento. 



Here is one of my favorites now before me, a fine yellow poplar, quite straight, perhaps ninety feet high, an 

 four feet thick at the butt. How strong, vital, enduring! How dumbly eloquent! What suggestions of imperturabilit 

 and being, as against the human trait of mere seeming." 



Walt Whitman. 



