He called that tulip tree “the bouquet of God,” because it was more like a Titan’s handful of flowers than a tree. Yet it stood a hundred and fifty feet high, and the stem of it was so large that a man and a girl together could just touch hands about its bole by stretching their arms to full length in a double embrace, and leaning their cheeks against its bark, deep-fluted as a Corinthian column.…
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