approach a hundred feet in height, with trunks of 
from two to three feet in diameter, and flower 
every year, sometimes producing seed. Mr. Lou- 
don, in his Arboretum Britannicum, has given the 
height of Tulip Trees, as now growing in various 
parts of Great Britain, from which we may antici- 
pate that, on an average, at ten year’s growth, it 
may be expected to attain fifteen feet; at twenty 
years old, thirty feet ; at forty years old, fifty feet ; 
and at seventy years old, seventy feet. The largest 
British specimens will be found at Claremont, 
Syon, Wolverton Hall, Longleat, Carclew, Maes- 
lough Castle, Croome, Elvaston Castle, Trentham ; 
Hopetown, Scotland; and Shelton Abbey, Ireland. 
The timber produced by our present subject, is, 
from its fineness of grain, durability, and lightness, 
employed in America for various purposes, as 
rafters and joists, shingles for covering buildings, 
doors, and all sorts of turnery. 
The Tulip Tree is usually propagated from seeds, 
which are annually sent from America to this 
country ; but when access can be had to a flow- 
ering tree, it would be desirable that the experi- 
ment be tried of raising it from cuttings of the 
flowering branches; these, it is probable, would 
flower when of much smaller size than trees raised 
from seeds. It is frequently observed that seedling 
house-plants grow higher, and are much older 
before they produce flowers, than the same species 
when propagated as now suggested, from cuttings of 
flowering branches. A further inducement to try 
this method of increase, exists in the probability 
that it has never been attempted. 
Don’s S^st. Bot. 1, 86. 
