CHAP. III. " MAGNOL7^Vi?yE. MAGNO^L/y^. 269 



Statistics. Magnolia gla/ica in Great Britain. This species is by no means dii- 

 comnion, but always as a standard, and, when in a thriving state, in moist peat 

 soil. The largest tree in the neighbourhood of London is that at Syon, figured 

 in our Second Volume. There are in Thompson's Nursery, at Mile End, va- 

 rious specimens from 17 ft. to 20 ft. in height; and one of the var. Thompson/«w« 

 still higher. There is one at Kew, 30 years planted, which is 20 ft. higii ; one of 

 tiie same age and height at White Knights, and another in the Killerton Nursery; 

 one at Cobham Hall, Kent, 25 years planted, and 25 ft. high. At Woburn Farns, 

 Chertsey, there was formerly a row of trees of this species 20 ft. high, and nearly 

 a century old, which were cut down when the new house was built. (J. i\I., in 

 Gent, ^fag., new series, vol. iii. p. 226.) At Alton Towers, in Staffordshire, 

 the tree has attained the height of 12 ft. in 10 years; and at Croome, in 

 Worcestershire, 15 ft. in 25 years. At Cownan House, in Cromarty, in lat. 

 55° 35", and 161 ft. above the level of tlie sea, young plants were growing 

 freely in 1835. At Oriel Temple, near Dublin, trees 10 years planted have 

 attained the height of 1 1 ft. 



JMagndlia. g/aiica in foreign countries. In France this species is not very 

 abundant, from the great heat of the summers, and the general dryness of the 

 air; but, in some shaded moist situations at Versailles and the Petit Trianon, 

 it has attained the height of 15 ft. There are trees of most of the varieties, 

 of from 10 ft. to 12 ft. in height, at Sceaux and at Fromont, and small plants 

 in many of the botanic gardens both of France and Germany. In Belgium 

 there are trees upwards of 15 ft. high in various private gardens, and of a 

 smaller size in the botanic garden at Ghent, and in the grounds of the palace 

 of Lficken. In the north of Germany, and in Sweden and Russia, it is a 

 green-house plant; and, though it is to be found in the south of Europe in most 

 of the botanic gardens and best private collections, yet, owing to the heat and 

 dryness of the air, it does not thrive in these countries. M. glauca, and all its 

 varieties, will be found at Monza. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants for sale, whether seedlings or layers, are ge- 

 nerally kept in pots. The price, in the London nurseries, is 2s. 6d. each ; at 

 BoUwyller, 10 francs; and in New York, 12 dollars per hundred, or l-i cents 

 each, and 2 dollars 75 cents per quart of seed. In London the seed is sold 

 by Charlwood for 1^. 6d. an ounce. 



5f 3. Magno^l/j tripe'tala L. The three-petaled Magnolia. 



Identif cation. Lin. Sp., 2. p. 756. ; Willd. Baum., 231. ; Pursh, 2. p. 381. ; Miclix., 3. p. 90. 

 Si/nonymes. M. umbrella Lam., Notiv. Diih., Dec. Prod., Don's Mill. ; M. frondbsa Salisb. ; the 



Umbrella Tree ; Umbrella Magnolia ; Elkwood ; Magnolie Parasol and Arbre Parasol, Ft: ; 



dreyblattriger Bieberb»um, dreiblattrige Magnolie, Ger. 

 Derivations. This species is called the Umbrella Tree, according to Michaux, because its leaves, 



which are thin, oval, entire, and acuminate at both extremities, 18 in. or 20 in. long, and 7 in. or 8 in. 



broad, are often disposed in rays at the extremity of vigorous shoots ; and these display a surface 



of 2i ft. in diameter, in the form of an umbrella. The tree is called Elkwood in the mountains of 



Virginia, probably from the resemblance which the points of the shoots bear to the horns of the elk. 



The French names merely signify Umbrella Tree, and the German ones the three-petaled Beaver 



Tree, or Magnolia. 

 Engravings. Michx. Arb., 3. t. 5. ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 418. ; OMo., t. 18. ; Nouv. Dub.; and the plate 



of this species in our Vol. II. 



Sjyec. Char. Deciduous. Leaves lanceolate, spreading, adult ones smooth, 



younger ones pubescent underneath. Petals 9 — 12, exterior ones pendent. 



(i>o?2's J/«7/.,i. p. 83.) North America. Flowers white. In May and June. 



1752. Height 30 ft. 



Description. This tree, both in America and Europe, is remarkable for the 

 largeness of its leaves, and its flowers. The wood is spongy, brittle, with a 

 large pith, soft, porous, and of very little use. The bark upon the trunk is 

 grey, smooth, and polished; and, if cut while green, it exhales a disagreeable 

 odour. In Britain the tree sends up various shoots from the root, to replace 

 the stems, which are seldom of long duration ; so that a plant that has stood 

 thirty or forty years in one spot has had its stems several times renewed 

 during that period. In America it seldom exceeds the height of 35 ft. ; and, in 

 England, 36 ft. is the greatest height that it has yet attained. The trunk, in 

 both countries, is from 5 in. to 6 in. in diameter. The stem is seldom erect 



