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decidedly the most stately tree in North America. 
When standing alone, and encouraged in its lateral 
growth, it will indeed often produce a lower head, but 
its tendency is to rise, and it only exhibits itself in all 
its stateliness and majesty when, supported on such a 
noble columnar trunk, it towers far above the heads of 
its neighbors of the park or forest. Even when at its 
loftiest elevation, 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 archi- 
tectural in their symmetry. The leaves also, from their 
bitterness, are but little liable to the attacks of any insect. 
