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TULIP TREE

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 367 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TULIP (Tulipa)

TULIP See also:
TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
TREE , Liriodendron tulipifera (Nat. Ord. Magnoliaceae), a See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American tree of See also:

GREAT

great beauty, with peculiarly four-lobed, truncate leaves and solitary tulip-like sweet-scented See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, variegated with See also:

green, yellow and See also:

orange. It is See also:

hardy in See also:

England, but while See also:

young it requires See also:

PROTECTION

protection from See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold, cutting winds. In See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit it resembles a somewhat stiff-growing See also:

PLANE

plane tree, and becomes fully as large. It does not flourish in the See also:

ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere of towns. It thrives best in deep sandy See also:

LOAM (O.E. lam; the word appears in Dut. leem and Ger. Lehm; the ultimate origin is the root lai-, meaning " to be sticky," which is seen in the cognate " lime," Lat. limus, mud, clay)

loam, and is propagated by seeds.

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