The Tupelo. 



541. The SEED of this tree is a berry in the shape of 

 an egg, and of about the size of a small filbert. There is 

 a pulp on the outside ; then comes a ribbed shelly and 

 within that shell a kernel. I have received the seeds from 

 America packed, or rather put into a barrel, mixed with 

 dry sand. There is very great difficulty in obtaining the 

 seeds, which arrive in the winter, and are sown in the spring. 

 The plants come up very boldly early in June ; they are 

 two or three inches high in a very short time, and have 

 oblong seed leaves, which are more than an inch long. In 

 October they are very fine plants, and in November, or in 

 the ensuing month of March or April, they ought to be 

 put into the nursery, in the manner directed for the Ash. 

 A year is long enough for them to stand in the nursery, 

 and they may then go to their final situation. In clumps, 

 in independent trees, in lofty ornamental plantations, in 

 avenues, the Large Tupelo would form a beautiful variety 

 with the Planes, the Limes, the Tulip Trees, and other 

 trees of ornament. The leaf is, as I said before, singularly 

 beautiful, as is the bark of the tree, and particularly the 

 bark of the twigs. 



542. As to the pruning, the cultivating of the ground, 

 and other parts of the management, they may all be the 

 same as has been directed in the case of the Tulip Tree. 

 The rootof the Tupelo is bushy, and causes the plant to be 

 removed without risk. With regard to the cutting down 

 of the plant the year after it is planted out, I look upon the 

 Tupelo as being entitled to just the same observations that 

 I have made with regard to the Tulip Tree. 



543. The other two Tupelos are inferior in height and 

 size to the great Tupelo. The common Tupelo rarely 

 exceeds forty feet in height, and the Sour Tupelo does not 

 rise quite so high ; but they are both of them trees of great 



