FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
Before turning to coniferous trees, 
the tulip tree deserves some attention 
on account of its usefulness, its ex- 
tended habitat, and its beauty as a 
forest tree. It is closely related to the 
magnolias, to which belongs the big 
laurel of the Gulf region, an evergreen 
species that might be called the queen 
of all broadleaf trees. But the big 
laurel must here give place to the tulip 
tree, because it is not so distinctively a 
forest tree, and is much more restricted 
in its geographical distribution. 
The first general impression of the 
tulip tree is, I venture to say, one of 
strangeness. There is a foreign look 
about the heavy, truncated leaves, and 
an oriental luxury in the large, green- 
ish-yellow flowers. These appear in 
May or June, while the conelike fruit 
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