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Cannot get to them, obferving to keep every fort fe- 
parate, but they fliould not be kept too clofe from 
the air, nor fuffered to lie in heaps together, left they 
fliould grow mouldy, for if any of the roots once take 
the mould, they commonly rot when they are plant- 
ed again, if not before. 
The offsets of thefe roots, which are not large enough 
to produce flowers the fucceeding year, fliould be al- 
fo put by themfelves, keeping each fort diftindt ; thefe 
fliould be planted a month earlier in autumn than 
the blowing roots, in particular beds by themfelves 
in the flower-nurfery, where they may not be expofed 
to public view ; but the earth of the beds fliould be 
prepared for them in the fame manner as for larger 
roots, though thefe fliould not be planted above five 
inches deep, becaufe they are not ftrong enough to 
pufli through fo great covering of the earth as the old 
roots ; they may be placed much nearer together than 
thofe which are to flower, and in one year moft of them 
will become ftrong enough to flower, when they may 
be removed into the flower-garden, and placed in the 
beds amongft thofe of the fame kinds. 
T U L I P I F E R A. Herm. Hort. Leyd. Boerh. Ind. 
Plant, n. p. 262. Liriodendrum. Lin. Gen. Plant. 
609. [of Tulipa, a Tulip, and fero, Lat. to bear.] 
The Tulip-tree. 
The Characters are, 
The proper involucnim of the flower is compofed of two 
angular leaves, which fall off ; the empalgment is compofed 
of three oblong plain leaves like petals , which fall away. 
The flower is nearly of the bell-jhape, and has fix petals , 
which are obtufe and channelled at their bafe ■, the three 
outer fall off ; it has a great number of narrow Jlamina , 
which are infer ted to the receptacle of the flower , having 
long narrow fummits faftened to their fide, and many ger- 
men difpofed in a cone, having no ftyle , crowned by a flngle 
globular ftigma. The germen afterward become fcaly feeds , 
lying over each other like the J coles of fijh , and form the 
refemblance of a cone. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the feventh fedlion 
of Linnaeus’s thirteenth clafs, which includes thofe 
plants whofe flowers have many male and female parts. 
He has altered the title of it to Liriodendrum, but as 
the flowers of this tree have as little refemblance of a 
Lily, as they have of a Tulip, the firft title may be as 
well continued, efpecially as it has been long known 
in Europe by the title Tulipifera. 
We have but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Tulipifera ( Liriodendron .) The Tulip-tree. Tulipifera 
arbor Virginiana. H. L. The Virginia Tulip-tree ; and 
by Linnaus Liriodendron foliis lobatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 
7 55. 
This is a native of North America, where it grows fo 
large as to be a tree of the firft magnitude, and is gene- 
rally known thro’ all the Englifh fettlements by the title 
of Poplar. Of late years there has been great num- 
bers of thefe trees raifed from feeds in the Englifh 
gardens, fo that now they are become common in the 
nurferies about London, and there are many of the 
trees in feveral parts of England which do annually 
produce flowers, The firft tree of this kind which 
flowered here, was in the gardens of the late Earl of 
Peterborough, at Parfons Green near Fulham, which 
was planted in a wildernefs among other trees ; before 
this was planted in the open air, the few plants which 
were then in the Englifh gardens, were planted in pots 
and houfed in winter, luppofing they were too tender 
•to live in the open air ; but this tree foon after it was 
placed in the full ground, convincing the gardeners 
of their miftake, by the great progrefs it made, while 
thofe which were kept in pots and tubs increafed 
flowly in their growth ; fo that afterward there were 
many others planted in the full ground, which are now 
arrived to a large fize, efpecially thofe which were 
planted in a moift foil. One of the handfomeft trees 
of this kind near London, is in the garden of Wal- 
tham Abbey ; and at Wilton, the feat of the Earl of 
Pembroke, there are fome trees of great bulk •, but 
the old tree at Parfons Green is quite deftroyed, by 
the other trees which were fuffered to over-hang it, 
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and rob it of its nourifhment, from a fear of taking 
down the neighbouring trees, left by admitting the 
cold air to the Tulip-tree it would injure it. 
The young fhoots of this tree are covered with a 
frnooth purplifh bark ; they are garnifhed with large 
leaves, whofe foot-ftalks are four" inches long ; they 
are ranged alternate : the leaves are of a Angular form, 
being divided into three lobes •, the middle lobe is 
blunt and hollowed at the point, appearing as if it 
had been cut with fciflars. The two fide lobes are 
rounded, and end in blunt points. The leaves are 
from four to five inches broad near their bale, and 
about four inches long from the foot-ftalk to the 
point, having a ftrong midrib, which is formed by 
the prolongation of the foot (talk. From the midrib 
run many tranfverfe veins to the borders, which ra- 
mify into feveral fmaller. The upper fur-face of the 
leaves is frnooth, and of a lucid green, the under is 
of a pale green. The flowers are produced at the end 
of the branches ; they are compofed of fix petals, 
three without, and three within, which form a fort 
of bell-fhaped flower, from whence the inhabitants of 
North America gave it the title of Tulip. Thefe pe- 
tals are marked with green, yellow, and red fpots, 
fo make a fine appearance when the trees are well 
charged with flowers. The time of this tree’s flower- 
ing is in July, and when the flowers drop, the ger- 
men fwells and forms a kind of cone, but thefe do not 
ripen in England. 
Mr. Catefby, in his Natural Hiftory of Carolina, &c. 
fays, There are fome of thefe trees in America, which 
are thirty feet in circumference ; that the boughs are 
unequal and irregular, making feveral bends or el- 
bows, which render the trees diftinguiihable at a great 
diftance, even when they have no leaves upon them. 
They are found in moft parts of the northern conti- 
nent of America, from the Cape of Florida to New 
England, where the timber is of great ufe, particu- 
larly for making of periaugues, the trunks of thefe 
being large enough to be hollowed into the fhape of 
thofe boats, fo they are of one piece. 
This tree is propagated by feeds, which are now an- 
nually imported in great plenty from America. Thefe 
may be either fown in pots or tubs filled with light 
earth from the kitchen-garden, or in a bed in the full 
ground. Thofe which are fown in the firft way, may 
be placed on a gentle hot-bed, which will forward 
their growth, fo that the plants will acquire more 
ftrength before winter. If they are thus treated, the 
glaffes of the hot-bed fliould be fhaded from the fun 
every day, and the earth in the pots fliould be fre- 
quently refreflied with water, for unlefs it is kept 
moift, the feeds will not grow; but this muff be done 
with care, fo as not to make it too wet, which wifi 
rot the feeds. When the plants appear, they mu ft be 
ftill fhaded in the heat of the day from the fun, but 
frefli airmuft be admitted daily to prevent their draw- 
ing up weak, and as the feafon advances, they muft 
be gradually hardened to bear the open air. While 
the plants are young, they do not care for much fun, 
fo they fliould be either fhaded or placed where the 
morning fun only ftiines upon them ; they muft alfo 
be conftantly fupplied with water, but not have it in 
too great plenty. As the young plants commonly 
continue growing late in the fummer, fo when there 
happens early frofts in autumn, it often kills their 
tender tops, which occafions their dying down aeon- 
fiderable length in winter ; therefore they fliould be 
carefully guarded againft theft firft frofts, which are 
always more hurtful to them than harder frofts after- 
ward, when their fhoots are better hardened ; how- 
ever, the firft winter after the plants pome up, it will 
be the better wav to llielter them in a common hot- 
bed frame, or to arch them over with hoops, and 
cover them with mats, expofing them always to the 
open air in mild weather. 
The following fpring, juft before the plants begin to 
fhoot, they fliould be transplanted into nurfery-beds, 
in a fheitered fituation, where they are not too much 
expofed to the fun. The foil of thefe beds fliould be 
a foft 
