Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
TULIP-TREE.—Singularly tall—reaching in the West 
an altitude of nearly two hundred feet—compact, cylin- 
drical, and as painfully symmetrical as a freshly trimmed 
privet hedge, is the tulip-tree, towering high above 
everything in the Park except the cottonwoods. It has 
the prim, expressionless figure of an arborvite, its squar- 
ish leaf is the most ungraceful of any of our foliage, and, 
on the whole, without having given me any direct cause 
for irritation, the tulip-tree rather annoys me. Others, 
whose sense of beauty is quite as reliable as mine, greatly 
admire it. ‘Truth to tell, it is a very healthy tree, free 
from insects—even the bugs don’t like it—and when in 
full bloom it makes a showy appearance. Its name 
comes from the immense tulip-shaped flower, yellow and 
orange, and from its no less tulip-shaped fruit, erect and 
adhering to the tree all winter long. A _ large tree 
loaded with these dry slender cups makes a not unpleas- 
ing appearance. 
When oak, elm, and birch begin to look shabby in 
fall, this tree’s foliage is in luxuriant contrast. Un- 
doubtedly its greatest success is in the brief period of 
October, when, amid the browns and reds and greens of 
a brilliant landscape, tall, full-foliaged shafts of golden 
yellow, alive with fluttering leaves, here and there shoot 
up above the dogwoods, oaks, and hickories—they are 
tulip-trees, like giant torches bringing into full relief the 
deeper hues of the surrounding woods. 
Hop-TREE.—Half shrub, half tree, the wafer ash or 
hop-tree adorns many a niche that calls for something 
more assertive than a shrub, yet too small for the more 
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