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persons resort to the swamps in quest of them, and great quantities 

 are annually carried to Salem and Boston for sale. The gatherers 

 of the flower are regardless of the preservation of the trees; and in a 

 single season I have noticed scores of them broken down and almost 

 entirely destroyed." .... 



" No plant is, at every season and in every condition, more beautiful. 

 The flower, two or three inches broad, is as beautiful and almost as 

 fragrant as the water lily." 



John Robinson in his Flora of Essex County (Salem, Mass., 1880), 

 p. 31, under Magnolia glauca gives the following: "Gloucester and 

 swamps towards Essex. First brought to notice by Rev. Manasseh 

 Cutler during the last century." 



The date in Mr. Cutler's Journal is given as Monday, July 28, 

 1806 ; so that the reading should have been " in the early years of the 

 [then] present century" as no exact date was then available. 



Lester F. Ward in his Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity 

 (1881), p. 63, makes the following record regarding Magnolia in the 

 region of which he was writing. " In all swamps, but being rapidly 

 destroyed by people in search of the flowers." 



The species is apparently rare in Tennessee, as Gattinger in his 

 Flora of Tennessee (1901), p. 79, gives but one station for it, namely, 

 "Madison Co. W. Tenn. S. M. Bain." 



In C. S. Sargent's Manual of the Trees of North America (1905), 

 p. 318, occurs the following: "Most abundant and of its largest size 

 in the interior of the Florida peninsula on fertile hummocks rising 

 above the level of the Pine-lands." 



"Often cultivated as a garden plant in the eastern states and in 

 Europe." 



In Garden and Forest, vol. iii. p. 23 (1890), there is a valuable note 

 by Mr. T. O. Fuller of Needham, Mass., which I copy in full. 



" To the Editor of Garden and Forest : Sir. — In regard to the 

 Massachusetts station of Magnolia glauca, noticed in Garden and 

 Forest (ii. 612), the following may be of interest to some of your 

 readers : 



'The first specimen of the Magnolia glauca noticed in Massachusetts was 

 brought from Cape Ann Woods in the summer of 1805, by the late Chief 

 Justice Parsons. He observed a number of plants in flower as he was journey- 

 ing on that road, and being struck with their beautiful appearance, gathered a 

 few, which he brought to Boston for examination by his friends. I happened 

 to be at his house on the day he returned from his journey. He showed me 



