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nae 4 Magnolia amplifima, flore albo, fruciu coccineo. 
| The Umbrella-tree. 
_ The height of this tree is from fixteen to twenty feet, having a flender trunk of about five 
or fix inches diameter; the leaves, which are thirty inches long and five in width, grow in 
horizontal circles of about ten together, fomewhat refembling an umbrella; in the center of 
which rifes a large greenifh-white flower, compofed of ten petals. The ftructure of the ovarium 
and feed-veflel is like thofe of the other fpecies. They grow in the fhady woods of Carolina, 
their ample and tender leaves not enduring to be ruffled in an open expofure. The feeds of this 
moft elegant plant require the like management as thofe of the magnolia altifima; but as it is 
a tender plant, it is raifed with more difficulty, and I fear will not abide our winters without 
fome protection. Very few of thefe trees are found in Virginia; York River feems to be their 
moft northern boundary. in which they are known to grow; in Carolina they are in greater 
plenty, particularly in the path leading from Mr. Sxenn’s houfe to his Savanna. ~ 
The figures of all the plants here exhibited are done in their natural fize, except this 
alone ; which, though well deferving that advantage, could not be here effe&ted, wherefore 
there was a neceflity of reducing it to this {mall fcale, the circle of leaves at its full growth 
meafuring nine feet. The flower is exhibited by itfelf. 
Concerning Oaks. 
The foil and climate of England being fo peculiarly adapted to the growth of the oak, it 
- may be reafonably expected that the various {pecies of this tree which America abounds with, 
_fhould alfo agree and profper with us, at leaft as well as many other trees of thofe countries ; | 
but experience fhews otherwife, unlefs acorns are brought from the northward, as Pennfylvania, 
New York, &c. for they are frequently killed in the ground in winter that come from South 
Carolina, a country many degrees colder than England ; and are otherwife not well adapted to 
our climate, moft of them being reared with fome difficulty ; wherefore it feems more feafible 
to gratify and affift the curious in getting together a collection of the various fpecies from the 
= — to increafe them fo much as to become naturalized to our woods. ; 
~ The planters of America multiply the fpecies of their oaks to twice the number they really 
ba a giving them different names according to the properties of their wood and the ufes 
: | they 
