ENTS,

I visited Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia yesterday and found
some great tulip trees, including one recently measured by ENTS member
Scott Wade! 163.3' height. PA height champion.

Nice forest, beautiful meadow...The rest was all about Fountains and a
massive Conservatory designed by early 20th century biggo Pierre du
Pont. Supposed to be an important botanical garden, but I just liked
the trees and meadow.

Fountains??? Can you get more cliche for one of these corporate
Napoleons? I read he used to 'entertain' his nieces and nephews by
putting secret fountain jets around the grounds and suddenly turning
them on to surprise them. They were probably traumatized by Uncle
Pierre...

Anyway. Here's a link to what i think is the tulip tree that Scott
measured. There was a beautiful maple too beside the meadow. There
were so many sugar maples that I assumed this was one, but it could be
a red.

http://picasaweb.google.com/JennifDudley/TulipTreesAndASugarMapleLong...

Jenny