LARGE TUPELO. 
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France, Avhere the wheels of heavy vehicles have naves 20 inches in diam- 
eter at the insertion of the spokes, with an axle-tree of 350 pounds weight, 
and are laden for distant transportation with 9000 pounds, which is twice 
the burthen ever laid upon them in America. The Tupelo, therefore, 
from its inferiority in size and strength, can never he substituted for the 
Twisted Elm. Rut if to its own organization it joined the solidity of the 
Elm, a more rapid vegetation and the faculty of growing on dry and ele- 
vated lands, and of expanding to three or four times its present dimensions, 
it would be the most precious to the mechanical arts of all the forest trees 
of Europe and North America. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania, many 
farmers prefer the Tupelo for the side-boards and bottom of carts, as ex- 
perience has evinced its durability. Wooden bowls are made of it, which 
are heavier than those of Poplar} but less liable to split. As a combustible 
it is esteemed for consuming slowly and diffusing a great heat : at Phila- 
delphia many persons, in making' their provision of wood for the winter, 
•select a certain proportion of the Tupelo, which is sold separately for logs. 
The preceding remarks will enable the Europeans to appreciate the 
value of the Tupelo, while they suggest to the Americans the importance 
of introducing the Twisted Elm. 
PLATE CXI. 
A branch with leaves and fruit of the natural size. Fig. 1 , A stone separated 
from the pulp. 
LARGE TUPELO, 
Nyssa geandidkhtata. N.foliis longe petiolatis, ova, libus, acuminatis ; pedun- 
cidis femineis 1 -ftoris ; fructibus cœruleis. 
This is the most remarkable species of its genus for height and diameter. 
According to my own observations, it is unknown to the Northern and 
Middle States, and is found only in the lower part of the Carolinas, of 
