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Liriodemlron TuUpifernm — Tulip-tree. 



This magniticent tree, now rarely seen in Canada, is 

 will suited to low damp soils. It reaches a height of 

 one hundred feet or more, by five to six feet in diameter. 

 A poixnd of seed, which ripens in autum, contains twenty 

 thousand pickles, and it may be sown then or in spring. 



57.— Fraxinus pubescens — Red-ashi 



If sown in autumn, it Avill not come up till the follow- 

 ing spring ; if soAvn in spring, it takes a whole year to 

 germinate. The long tap-root of the tulip-tree causes it 

 to be impatient of transplantation, though the seed 

 comes up well, and, consec]uently, it must be treated 

 'like the tap-root of the oaks, hickories, &c., i. e., it must 



