Magnolia 
grandiflora 
DA ARBORETUM NOTES. 
MAGNOLIACE:. 
MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA. 
Loudon, v. 1. 20% 
There is a magnificent coloured plate of this 
tree in Catesby’s Carolina, vol. 2. 
Here, at Barton, this will grow only against a 
wall, and requires further protection in winter. All 
our plants of this species (most of them of nearly 
thirty years’ growth) were killed to the ground by 
the intense frost of Christmas, 1860; they were 
together with Photinia serrulata and the common 
Laurustinus, the first plants which showed its 
effect. They have since grown up again pretty 
vigorously from the stumps; and this autumn,1869 
one of them has flowered well, for the first time 
since that destructive winter. 
In the Botanic Garden at Pisa, I saw, in 1848, 
a very large and beautiful tree of Magnolia 
erandiflora, which was planted in 1787; it ripens 
abundance of fruit every year, and young plants 
have been raised from its seeds. According toa 
note by Signor Fenzi, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
(November 27th, 1869), this tree measures six feet 
round the trunk at three feet from the ground, and 
the area covered by its branches is nearly sixty 
feet in diameter. 
At Florence, where the winters are often very 
sharp, this tree thrives very well, as a standard 
