. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. Unfolding Leaves of Tulip-tree. properly called magnificent, for it rises to the height of one hundred and ninety feet. The Tulip-tree, however, standing alone attains its finest development. The trunk rises like a Co- rinthian column, tall and slender, the branches come out symmetrically, and the whole contour of the tree, though somewhat formal, possesses a cer- tain stately elegance. The leaves are of unusual shape and de- velop in a most pe- culiar and character- istic manner. The
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. Unfolding Leaves of Tulip-tree. properly called magnificent, for it rises to the height of one hundred and ninety feet. The Tulip-tree, however, standing alone attains its finest development. The trunk rises like a Co- rinthian column, tall and slender, the branches come out symmetrically, and the whole contour of the tree, though somewhat formal, possesses a cer- tain stately elegance. The leaves are of unusual shape and de- velop in a most pe- culiar and character- istic manner. The leaf-buds are composed of scales as is usual, and these scales grow with the growing shoot. In this respect the buds do not differ from those of many other trees, but what is peculiar is that each pair of scales devel- ops so as to form an oval en- velop which contains the young leaf and protects it against changing temperatures until it is strong enough to sustain them without injury. When it has reached that stage the bracts separate, the tiny leaf comes out carefully folded along the line of the midrib, opens as it matures, and until it becomes full grown the bracts do duty as stipules, be- coming an inch or more in length before they fall. The leaf is unique in shape, its apex is cut off at the end in a way peculiarly its own, the petioles 17. Flower of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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