The Tulip Tree. 



to give room for its growth to a large size, there must be 

 something else, if we make ivoods of it, to occupy the ground 

 beneath it. Michaux tells us, that though the tree delights 

 most in damp situations, he has seen it mingled amongst 

 all other trees; and that he has sometimes seen it constitut- 

 ing, exclusively, tracts of forest for many miles together, in- 

 cluding hills as well a? dells ; so that we might plant it any 

 where, only bearing in mind that low and damp situations 

 are the best for this tree. 



531 . The ground for the plantation, ought, as in all other 

 cases, to be prepared by good trenching, after the manner 

 described in paragraphs from 15 to 21 inclusive, taking 

 care to distinguish between the two methods there pointed 

 out, and to follow that method which is calculated for the 

 land which you have to plant in. The ground being pre- 

 pared, the Tulip Thees ought to be placed in it in rows at 

 eight feet apart, the plants at eight feet apart in the row; 

 for the Tulip Tree does not spread like the Oak and many 

 others. Between each two Tulip Trees, in their rows, 

 you might plant in dry ground. Hazel or Birch as under- 

 wood : and, besides these plants put into the Tulip Tree 

 rows, you might have, between every two rows of Tulip 

 Trees, tvvo rows of Hazel or of Birch; so that all the 

 rows would stand at four feet apart, and all the plants at 

 four feet apart in each row; and thus a coppice w^ould be 

 going on and yielding its profits, \vhile the wood of the 

 Tulip Trees would be towering up. If in wet or moist 

 soil, the best underwood ^vould be the Birch. The Wil- 

 low would be too unruly; it would spread about too much, 

 and could not be profitably applied without being suffered 

 to grow to a greater height and size than those at which the 

 BiacH would become profitable. The Birch is a more 

 trim thing, goes more upright than the Willow, aflfords 



