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are to be removed, they should not be allowed to 
remain more than two years in the seed-bed. 
As the Tulip Tree is not valuable for timber until 
it attains a considerable size, it is best, in planting 
for that purpose, to treat it as recommended in the 
case of the Black Walnut—place the plants eight feet 
apart, and fill the intermediate spaces with some 
inferior tree, to be cut out at the proper time. When 
this is done, the Tulip Tree should have two years 
the start, some cultivated crop, corn, beans, or potatoes 
being planted among them for that time. 
Although the Tulip Tree will not make so speedy 
a return as some other trees for the outlay in planting 
and culture, yet it occupies a prominent place in the 
list of trees meriting extensive cultivation. 
MACLURA. . 
Natural Order, Urticacee. 
Male flowers, in a very short, nearly sessile panicle 
of about twelve flowers ; female flowers, in close heads, 
on a short peduncle. 
Maclura aurantiaca—Osage Orange, Bow-wood. 
Leaves, ovate-acuminate, of a deep, shining green ; 
male plant, with smaller leaves; fruit, large, golden- 
yellow, warty. 
It is not intended here to discuss the merits of the 
Osage Orange as a hedge plant, nor to describe its 
treatment for that purpose. These have been abund- 
antly set forth in other publications, and are pretty 
