to twenty petals to a flower, and M. salicifolia, Maxim., 
which has glabrous peduncles and winter-buds with narrower 
leaves that are glaucous beneath. But besides the lofty 
form alluded to, which Sargent has treated as a distinct 
variety, var. borealis, there is another form of M. Kobus, 
also represented in European collections, which while it 
never attains the dimensions of the Sapporo tree, differs 
from its companion in flowering more freely while still 
young and in having smaller leaves and more slender twigs. 
This second form, the one on which the original description 
of the species was based, is that to which the plant whence 
our material was derived belongs. That form was’ first 
introduced to England about 1879 by Mr. ©. Maries when 
collecting for Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons; the original tree 
is still in their nursery at Coombe Wood. ‘The trees at 
Kew, which are now about 15 feet high, usually come into 
leaf early in April. The spray figured, which came from 
one of these, did not flower until May, 1911, the flowers of 
this Magnolia, like those of most early flowering trees and 
shrubs, having been retarded for three or four weeks by a 
long-continued cold spell. This circumstance also explains 
the forwardness of the foliage as depicted in our plate; as 
a rule the flowers appear on quite naked shoots. In gardens 
M. Kobus will be valued for its great hardiness, its shapely 
pyramidal form and its copious leafage. As a flowering 
tree it is also highly attractive, and in this respect it suffers 
from comparison only with other members of the same 
genus, which includes some of the finest flowering trees of 
the northern temperate zone. It likes a moist, deep, open 
soil and should be raised from imported seeds. 
Description.— Tree, deciduous, of narrow pyramidal form 
when young, ultimately rounded, in one form 15-20 ft., in 
another 70-80 ft. in height; twigs aromatic when bruised, 
dark brown and silky about the nodes when young; almost 
black when a year old; winter-buds pubescent. Leaves 
obovate, cuneate at the base, bluntly cuspidate at the tip, 
entire, 4—7 in. long, 2-4 in. wide, glabrous or glabrescent, 
conspicuously reticulately veined beneath; petioles 3-1 in. 
long. Flowers 4 in. across, solitary at the tips of short 
lateral twigs, Sepals 3, subulate, caducous, 3 in. long, 
greenish, glabrous. Petals 6, pure white with a purple 
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