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and clay; the latter soil being rendered free by sand, leaf mould, or manure, 
and drainage. The situation, when the plant is treated as a bush, ought to be 
open, in order that the wood may be ripened; and the plant should be 
detached, in order that it may be covered with foliage and blossoms on every 
side. North of London, in most situations, it requires a wall, and few plants 
are more deserving of one. Against a wall, it will reach the height of 15 ft. 
or 20ft. In the London nurseries, it is generally propagated by layers ; but 
it will also strike by cuttings, both of the ripened and the herbaceous wood. 
The stools are: generally formed in pits; or, if in the open ground, they 
are covered with mats during winter. Seeds have been ripened both in Eng- 
land and France ; and from these piants have been raised in. some few nur- 
series. The plants, whether raised from layers, cuttings, or seed, should 
always be kept in pots till wanted for final planting. This species often 
serves as a stock for grafting the other kinds on, which belong to this section. 
Genus II. 
LIRIODE’NDRON Z. Tue Tutip Tree. 
Gen. Char. Carpels 1—2-seeded, disposed in spikes, indehiscent, deciduous, 
drawn out into a wing at the apex. Calyx of 3 deciduous sepals. Corolla 
of 6 petals, conniving into a bell-shaped flower. (Don’s Mill., i. p. 86.) 
— There is only one species; a deciduous tree of the first rank, native 
of North America. 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; 3-lobed, the terminal lobe 
emarginately truncate, the lateral ones with two sinuses. Stipules flat. 
Flowers terminal, solitary, greenish yellow, orange within. — The only spe- 
cies in British gardens is the Liriodéndron Tulipifera. 
* 1, LiriopE’npron Tuuipr’Fera LZ. The Tulip-bearing Liriodendron, or 
Tulip Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 755. 3 Dec. Prod., 1. p. 82. ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 86. 
Synonymes. The Poplar, White Wood, Canoe Wood, the Tulip Tree, Amer.; Virginian Poplar, 
Tulip-bearing Lily Tree, Saddle Tree, Eng. ; Tulipier de Virginie, Fi. ; Virginischer Tulipeer- 
baum, Ger. 
Derivation. This tree is called Liriodéndron, from leirion, a lily, and dendron, a tree; from the 
fiowers resembling those of a lily. though more correctly those of a tulip, as the specific name im- 
plies. It is called Pcplar, from its general resemblance to trees of that genus ; White Wood, from 
the colour of its timber , Canoe Wood, from the use to which it is applied by the native Indians: 
Tulip Tree, from its tulip-like lowers; and Saddle Tree, from the form of its leaves. ‘The French 
and German names are literal translations of the words Virginian tulip tree. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., 275.; Duh., tom. 3. t. 18.5; the plate in Arb. Brit., lst edit. vol. v.; and 
our fig. 46. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves smooth, truncate at the top; -4-lobed, resembling a 
saddle in shape. Flowers large, solitary, terminal; variegated with green, 
yellow, and orange colour; furnished with two deciduous bracteas under 
flowers. (Don’s Mil.) A smooth deciduous tree of large size. Canada 
to Florida, Height 70 ft. to 140 ft., and trunk 8 ft.to 9 ft. in diameter, 
in America; 50{t. to 90 ft.in England. Introduced in 1688. Flowers 
greenish yellow without, orange within; June and July. Strobile brown; 
ripe in October. Decaying leaves rich yellow and brown. Naked young 
wood smooth, and of a mahogany brown. 
Variety. 
* L. T. 2 obtustloba Michx., integrifolia Hort., Yellow Wood, or Yellow 
Poplar, has the leaves with blunter lobes than the species, but is in 
no other respect different from it. 
Other Varieties. L. T. acutifolia Michx. has never, we believe, been intro- 
duced. L. T. fidva Hort. has yellow flowers. As the tulip tree is almost 
always raised from seeds, it is probable that the flowers of seedlings will 
