Liriodendron
(from Leirion, a Lily, and dendron, a tree). Tulip-tree. ORD. Magnoliaceae. A monotypic genus, the species being an elegant, hardy, deciduous tree. It thrives best in a good deep loamy soil; and a sheltered, but not overshadowed, situation is most suitable. Propagated by seeds, which should be sown in a rather moist sandy loam, in a shady position, during autumn.
L. tulipifera (tulip-bearing).* fl. variegated with green, yellow, and orange, large, solitary, terminal, very fragrant, each blossom furnished underneath with two deciduous bracts; petals six, connivent in two imbricated series; sepals three, reflexed; carpels, in an oblong spike, two-seeded, at length samaroid and indehiscent. Summer. l. smooth, simple, alternate, stipulate, three-lobed; the terminal lobe emarginately truncate, the lateral ones with two sinuses. h. 75ft. to 100ft. North America, 1688. A splendid tree, resembling an erect-growing Plane in habit.