: 4. Magnolia flore albo, folio majore, acuminato haud albicante. 
: The Magnolia of Beremivanis. 
‘This tree rifes to. the heighe of an hundred feet; its leaves are fhaped like thofe of the lilac 
‘tait larger, and fall at the approach of winter: it produces early in the {pring white rofaceous 
flowers, which are fucceeded by purple conic feed-vefiels, thick fet on the outfide with little 
protuberances, every one of which inclofes a fcarlet feed the fize of a french-bean. 
Thefe feeds, when they drop from their cells, fall not to the ground, but hang pendent by 
{mall white threads two or three inches below the cone. The feminal parts of this tree have 
fo near an affinity and refemblance to the magzolia altifima, and the other kinds of this 
genus, that, excepting the difference in their fize, the fame defcription may almoft ferve for all 
the four fpecies. The wood of this tree has a fine grain, is tough, and of an orange colour, 
and is ufed by the American Indians for bowls and other utenfils: they grow on the north fide 
of Sufquahanna river, in the province of Pennfylvania, and alfo in the woods of New York : 
which northern fituation adapts them to our climate more than the other kinds; and from 
the vigorous appearance of two or three very young plants now growing at Fulham, and which 
I believe are the only ones growing in England, there is good reafon to hope this majeftic tree 
may eafily be naturalized to our northern parts. 
3. Magnoha Lauri folio, fubtus albicante. 
The fweet flowering or rofe Bay. 
Thefe trees are ufually of a {mall fize, feldom growing to the height of twenty feet, and 
their trunks rarely above eight or ten inches thick; the leaves are fhaped like thofe of the 
common bay, of a fhining green, and white on the under fide: they bloffom in the month 
of May, producing a fucceflion of fragrant white flowers, which perfume the woods all the 
fummer long, and are fucceeded by pendulous {carlet feeds difcharged from purple cones in 
like manner as the reft of the tribe. 
Thefe trees grow generally in a low wet foil, but if removed to high dry ground will become 
more regular and handfome, and more prolific in flowers and fruit: they ufually thed their 
leaves in winter, unlefs the weather be very moderate. They are natives of Virginia and a 
great part of the northern continent of America. The feeds require the like management as 
-. thofe of the magnolia altifi ima, but are raifed with more difficulty. 
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