finest trees in the world; growing, with a straight trunk, twe 
feet in diameter, to upwards of seventy feet high, and forming 
a regular head; it bears a profusion of flowers, which per- 
fume the air far around with a most agreeable scent: and in 
the autumn, the fruit, a kind of cone containing scarlet seeds, — 
which drop from their cells and remain suspended by a thread, 
is scarcely less attractive. _ 
All the above-mentioned varieties are to be met with in 
our Nurseries, and grow in the garden of our friend Joun 
Watker, Esq. at Arno’s-Grove, Southgate, who communi- 
cated the specimen from which our drawing was taken. 
‘This variety, the lanceolata of Hortus Kewensis, is gene- 
rally known among the Nurserymen by the name of the 
Exmouth Magnolia, so called from a fine one mentioned by 
Miter, as growing in the garden of Sir Jonn Coxuiron ;. 
which we suppose was the original stock from whence most 
of our trees of this kind have been produced. It has the 
advantage of flowering much more freely than the first- 
mentioned variety and of being more hardy. There was a 
remarkable fine tree of this sort which grew against the 
house of Mr. Wuirtey, when his Nursery was at Brompton, 
‘which, in some seasons produced abundance of flowers, the 
finest that we ever saw, some of them being not much short 
‘of a foot in diameter. : ne 
‘There is, a variety nearly allied to this, not mentioned in 
the Hortus Kewensis, but which we have inserted by the 
name of ferruginea ; it bears smaller leaves, more obtusely 
pointed, and much more rusty on the under side. 
