The Tulip Tree. 



to the growth is very great. This work ought to be per- 

 formed, and in the same manner, in the nurseries of all 

 other trees; but particularly in the nurseries of those trees 

 which must go into the nursery when but of a very small 

 size 3 and the Tulip Tree is one of those. 



528. In two or three years, the plants will attain the 

 height of from two feet to three. Their side-shoots ought 

 to be cut off at the bottom, to prevent their being too much 

 loaded with leaf, and to encourage the growth of the stem 

 or trunk. When they have stood in the nursery two or 

 three years, they are at a proper age to be planted out. 

 The planting out should be performed in the same manner 

 as directed for the Ash, and as was before directed in 

 paragraph 7^. The season for doing the work is Novem- 

 ber or March; and let it be done when it may, the greatest 

 possible care should be taken to keep the roots, during 

 their transit from the nursery to the plantation, froai the 

 sun and the wind. 



529. The Tulip Tree needs not to be cut down the 

 year after being planted. It has a bushy root, transplants 

 well, and it is not, in my opinion, a tree that it would be 

 advantageous to cut down. If it were cut down, it would 

 send up a new shoot; but I am not certain that it would 

 send up a shoot to go on faster and better than the original 

 one; because the root always strikes off at once; and be- 

 cause there would be no want of a supply of sap during the 

 first year. If, however, from any cause, the trees were to 

 appear to be stagnant during the first year, they ought to 

 be cut down as directed for the Ash; for a new shoot would 

 certainly come, and it might be equal in all respects to the 

 original shoot. In all cases where trees are cut down with 

 the intention of bringing up a new shoot to form a tree , 



