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WOOD AND FOEEST. 



Habitat. 



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Yellow Poplar. Whitewood. Tulip Teee. 



Poplar, inappropriate, inasmuch as the tree does not belong to poplar 

 family. White, refers inappropriately to the color of the wood, which is 

 greenish yellow. 



Liriodendron tuUpifera Linnaeus. 

 Liriodcndron, means lily-tree; tulipifcra means tulip-bearing. 



Habitat: (See map) ; 

 best in lower Oliio valley 

 and southern Appalach- 

 ian mountains. 



Characteristics of the 

 Tree : Height, r0'-90' ;, 

 even 200'; diameter, 6'-8', 

 even 12'; tall, magnifi- 

 cent trunk, unsurpassed 

 in grandeur by any east- 

 ern American tree; bark, 

 brown, aromatic, evenly 

 furrofl-ed so as to make 

 clean, neat-looking trunk; 

 leaves, 4 lobed, apex, pe- 

 culiarly truncated, clean 

 cut; flowers, tulip-like; 

 fruit, cone, consisting of 

 many scales. 



Appearance of Wood: 



Color, light grcenisli or 

 yellow brown, sap-wood, 

 creamy white; difl'use- 

 porous; rings, close but 

 distinct; grain, straight; 

 Leaf. rays, numerous and plain. 



