The Tulip Tree. 



its stool and roots ought to be completely grubbed up, to 

 make room for the planting of something, or the planting 

 of other Tulip Trees ; for, though it will send shoots enough 

 out of the stool, those shoots never become trees, and are of 

 very little use. 



536. If Tulip Trees be intended for clumps, for avenues, 

 or for independent trees, they must be fenced, and, in ail 

 respects, treated in the manner so fully described in the case 

 of the Plane, to which the reader will now please to refer. 



537. I cannot conclude this article without expressing 

 my hope that some gentlemen in England will be induced 

 toplantand to propagate this tree, not only for ornament, but 

 for the sake of the timber, and, consequently, upon a con- 

 siderable scale. The means are not at all expensive. The 

 seeds are easily obtained in the States of New York, New 

 Jersey, and Pennsylvania; they are as dry as so much 

 chaff; they may be kept, if in a dry place, for almost any 

 length of time, so as to suit the convenience of sowing ; 

 and, that they are easily raised from the seed I have 

 proved, having sold several thousands of the plants this 

 year. But, if a man will not write a letter upon the sub- 

 ject ; if he will not take the pains to have the seed brought 

 over ; if he will not, with his own eyes, see the seed sown, 

 and the plants, and the planting, and the pruning attended 

 to; if he will not do these things, he cannot have the 

 trees, for, as lo purchasing them of those who raise the 

 trees from layers, each plant, to say nothing of its being a 

 mere branch of a tree, will cost him five shillings, or half-a- 

 crown at the least; whcnacoupleof dollars worth of seed from 

 Pennsylvania or New York, would give him from ten to 

 twenty thousand plants. If he will insist upon believing 

 his gardener, who will have no scruple to tell him, that 



