The Tulip Tree. 



great care should be taken that only one shoot be suffered 

 to remain. There will be several of them come out, but 

 all must be taken off except one, and that, too, during the 

 first summer. During the next winter, the trees should be 

 looked over, one by one. The shoot that has been left to go 

 on to become a tree, will be found, ninety-nine times out 

 of a hundred, to have come out of the stump, somewhere 

 considerably below the cut; so that there will remain a 

 piece of the old stump higher up than the lower end of the 

 new shoot. This piece of old stump, if suffered to remain, 

 would become a piece of dead wood, which the bark of the 

 new shoot would never cover, and which would make the 

 tree crooked at bottom. Therefore, now, during the next 

 winter after the trees have been cut down, these stubs 

 should be carefully taken off with a sharp knife, in a sloping 

 direction, the slope ending at the top, just at the point 

 where the new shoot has come out of the stump. By two 

 year's growth, the new shoot will cover the cut completely 

 over; it will place the new shoot perpendicularly upon the 

 old stump or foundation of the tree, and no man will be 

 able to perceive that there ever has been any cutting down 

 at all. I have mentioned this operation under the head of 

 other trees, but I repeat the mention of it here, and with 

 greater minuteness than before, because it is an operation 

 perfectly essential to the growth, the health, and the beauty 

 of a tree that has been cut down. 



530. With regard to distances, in a plantation of Tulip 

 Trees, we are first to consider that it is a tree calculated 

 to produce nothing but timber, Poles of it would be a great 

 deal better than those that come from the Poplars, or from 

 the Firs; but we have things enough to produce poles ; 

 and therefore we never can plant it for the purposes of 

 underwood ; yet, as it must stand with distances sufficient 



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