Magnolia 
acuminata 
56 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
MAGNOLIACE/:. 
planted, 1826; now certainly above fifty feet high, 
beautifully perfect and symmetrical in its growth. 
Stem four feet in circumference at three feet from 
the ground ; space covered by the branches about - 
twenty-five feet in diameter. Flowers very 
abundantly every summer, but the fruit always 
drops off before half ripe. |The colour of the 
flower very peculiar, a bluish green shaded in 
parts with a dull yellow, and having a glaucous 
bloom on other parts, altogether more singular than 
ornamental. The general form of this tree is very 
unlike that of the tree at Syon, figured by Loudon ; 
the lowest branches would sweep the ground ifnot . 
propped, and the branches for a great way up 
the tree are very equal in length and spread; so 
that the head is of very uniform width almost 
throughout, The branches, in general, go off from 
the trunk at first horizontally, then droop consider- 
ably, and curve upwards at the ends in a graceful 
manner. 
(1862). The fine tree in the American Garden 
was so far affected by the winter of 1860-61, that 
it did not flower in the summer following, 
although it does not show other signs of injury. 
There is another, a very flourishing young 
plant of this species, near the west end of the 
arboretum, planted 1841: it grows fast, but has 
not yet flowered. 
This young tree is now flowering for the first 
time (May, 1862). 
