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tion, its large specious blossoms, which, from their form, one 
of our poets has likened to the chalice ; 
Through the verdant maze 
The Tulip tree, 
Its golden chalice oft triumphantly displays. 
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jut out from amid the tufted canopy in the month of June, 
and glow in richness and beauty. While the tree is less than 
a foot in diameter, the stem is extremely smooth, and it has, 
almost always, a refined and finished appearance. For the 
lawn or park, we conceive the Tulip tree eminently adapted : 
its tall upright stem, and handsome summit, contrasting 
nobly with the spreading forms of most deciduous trees. It 
should generally stand alone, or near the border of a mass 
of trees, where it may fully display itself to the eye, and 
exhibit all its charms from the root to the very summit ; for 
no tree of the same grandeur and magnitude is so truly 
beautiful and graceful in every portion of its trunk and 
branches. Where there is a taste for avenues, the Tulip 
tree ought by all means to be employed, as it makes a most 
magnificent overarching canopy of verdure, supported on 
trunks almost architectural in their symmetry. The leaves 
also, from their bitterness, are but little liable to the attacks 
of any insect. 
This tree was introduced into England about 1668 ; and 
is now to be found in almost every gentleman’s park on 
the Continent of Europe, so highly is it esteemed as an 
ornamental tree of the first class. We hope that the 
fine native specimens yet standing, here and there, in farm 
lands along our river banks, may be sacredly preserved from 
the barbarous infliction of the axe, which formerly despoiled 
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