tulip-trees

A net, composed of very fine meshes, hung between two enormous tulip-trees, and in the midst of this snare, with its wings entangled, was a poor little bird, uttering pitiful cries, while it vainly struggled to escape.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

There is a little city hard by in which there is a garden of tulip-trees.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

There is a little city hard by in which there is a garden of tulip-trees.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

In the open and less marshy skirts of the vast forest, gigantic tulip-trees shoot up their massy and regular-built trunks, straight and pillar-like, until they put forth their broad arms covered with the magnificent foliage of their glossy deep green leaves, interspersed with superb white and yellow tulip-shaped flowers.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Fortunately, however, the Indian village lay, for the most part, in the shadow of the hill, itself covered with majestic maples and tulip-trees, that rose in dark and solemn masses above it, and thus offered the concealment denied in the more open parts of the valley.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

A saccharine, sticky substance, not unlike honey-dew, may often be found in the hollows of the immense petals, in search of which large black ants make pilgrimages from the root to the top of the largest tulip-trees, patiently toiling for two or three hours over the rough bark, among the bewildering wrinkles of which it is, a wonder how the way is kept with such unerring certainty.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Young tulip-trees about fifteen inches in diameter were cut down and their boles sawed into lengths of three feet.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

I have found those young tulip-trees that you want for your garden; they are just round the bend above Nat's Creek.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

Short branches never "appear on the stems" of old tulip-trees.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

A man born sixty years ago in the region of tulip-trees and sugar-camps was probably cradled in a "poplar" trough; and there were those born who would now be sixty years old if they had not in unwary infancy tumbled into the enormous rainwater-troughs with which every well-regulated house was furnished.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various