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discovered by Mr. Wilson in Western Szechuen at altitudes of 
7500 to over 9000 ft. It ought then to be perfectly hardy with 
us. It is a deciduous shrub or tree from 12 to 20 ft. high, the 
slender young shoots at first clothed with brown hairs, becoming 
purplish and glabrous the second year. The leaves are elliptic- 
oblong or slightly obovate, 3 to 5 in. long, 1} to 2 in. wide, acute 
at the apex, broadly wedge-shaped to rounded at the base, glabrous 
and dull green above, slightly glaucous and at first sparsely hairy 
beneath, except on the midrib, which is densely clothed with 
brown hairs; the petiole is slender and } to 13 in. long. The cup- 
shaped flower comes with the young growth and expands in June; 
it is white, fragrant, 3 to 4 in. wide, the petals obovate, broad or 
even rounded at the apex and 1 in. wide; stamens red. The fruit 
is cylindrical, 2 in. long, seeds scarlet-coated. 
ccording to Mr. Wilson, M. Nicholsoniana is very rare in a 
wild state and is only known to occur in moist thickets and wood- 
lands on and around Wa-shan. It belongs to the same group as 
M. Wilsonii, but differs from that species in its longer leaf-stalks 
and much less hairy leaves. It is named in honour of the late 
George Nicholson, Curator of Kew, 1885-1901. 
Magnolia Sargentiana, Rehder et Wilson. 
Judging by the statements made by Mr. Wilson, based on his 
observations of this tree as seen by him growing wild in Western 
Szechuen, it must be naturally one of. the most magnificent of 
all Magnolias. He met with it frequently 50 to 65 ft. high, and 
one specimen he saw in 1903 near Wa-shan was over 80 ft. high 
with a trunk nearly 10 ft. in girth. Five years later, when he 
made a special journey to photograph this tree, he found, un- 
happily, that it had been cut down. The species apnears to be 
most closely allied to the Himalayan M. Campbellii, whose 
splendid blossoms are fairly well known in the milder parts of 
the British Isles. The flowers have not yet been seen, or, at any 
rate, described, by any European, but Mr. Wilson was informed 
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the base, 4 to 7 in. long, 2} to 4 in. wide, smooth above, densely : 
villose beneath. The fruit is apparently very handsome, being 
cylindrical, 4 to 5} in. long, pink, with scarlet-coated seeds. _ 
M. Sargentiana was sent to Kew from the Arnold Arboretum in 
1911, at the same time as VM. Wilsonii, but it does not thrive so 
well. Probably, as its native altitudes are 1000 to 2000 ft. lower 
than those of M. Wilsonti, it may not be so hardy. It ought to be 
tried in the south-western counties, and is, indeed, succeeding : 
very well at Caerhays. We find it can be propagated by cuttings — 
of half-ripened leafy shoots. : 
Magnolia Wilsonii, Rehder. 
04, in Western Szechuen, south-east of Tachien-lu, at alti- 
tudes of 7000 to 8500 ft., but the plants in cultivation at Kew 
