Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
'
Text Appearing After Image:
Sprays of the Tulip Tree HARDWOODS ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE Bv Warren H. Miller, M. F. IT IS with much pleasurable antici- pation that I start in upon this introduction to my favorites among what may be called the isolated tree species among the broad leaves. For many of these do not occur in large families as do the oaks and maples and hickories, but rather a single representative, or two at most, is accorded us here in America, large as the family may be elsewhere on the globe. Yet these trees represent some of the most beautiful and the most stately of all our forest denizens, and without them we would feel that many beloved old favorites would be wanting. I refer to the tulip tree, the linden, the sweet and sour gums, the two dogwoods, the two willows, the wild cherries, the two walnuts, the chestnuts, and that noble gray gaint, the beech. Can you conceive of a forest without these trees? And could you forgive the lack 780 of variety that would ensue from their total omission? Commercially, for the sake of selling large blocks of lumber all of a grade and kind, we might tolerate the European system of pure forests, all oaks, or all hornbeam, or all beech; but to the country estate owner, while he may have his stands of pure oak and his sugar bush, his forest as a whole will not satisfy unless it presents a landscape bordered at least with a fair representation of the amazing" diversity of our native tree species. The liriodendron or tulip tree is one of these satisfactory old favorites, growing rapidly to a huge coliunn of tree, a veritable factory chimney in bark, rising sheer without a limb to a fork 50 feet from the ground. And then its noble head, solid and mighty, bedecked with gay tulip flowers in June, a grand shaft of orange yellow leaves in October, and all through the

Note About Images