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upper part of tin- soiitliern statrs, ard cast of tlie Allf^liaiiit's, have l)eeii un- 

 successful. In Tennessee it is found spaiingly at intervals of 40 or oO miles. 

 It appears to deligiit in cool siieltercd situations, where the soil is deep and 

 fertile ; ami, as already ohscrvcd, it is constantly attended by the M. tripetala. 



Hisltiri/. It was discovered by the elder Michaux, in 1789, but was not in- 

 troduccii into England till imported by the Messrs. Loddiges in 1800. It has 

 rarely, if ever, been propagated in this country by inarching or layers, and 

 very seldom from seeds; and, hence, the plant is very sparingly distributed. 

 In France, it seems to have been introduced about the same time as in England ; 

 and it seems to prosper better in the climate of Paris, as there, in the nur- 

 sery of M. (rodefroy, it has ripeneil seeds, from which, in 1827, young plants 

 were raised. In Britain, young plants are constantly imported from the 

 New York and Philadelphia nurseries. 



Soil and Situaliou. The most suitable situation for this species is one per- 

 fectly sheltered on every side, and slightly shadetl from the mid-day sun. The 

 soil should be a deep dry sand; at all events, those trees in England which 

 have attained the largest size, stand in soil of this description ; our compa- 

 ratively moist winters rendering such a soil advantageous, by preventing the 

 excess of moisture from rotting the roots, or damping oft' the plant when young, 

 at the surface of the ground. 



Propaf^ation and Vnlture. Neither this species nor M. tripetala can be readily 

 grafted or inarched on each other, or on any other species, as far as expe- 

 rience has hitherto gone in Britain ; probably from the large proportion which 

 the pith bears to the ligneous part in young shoots; nevertheless, accordmg to 

 Bonplanil, it has been in one or two cases successfully effected in France. M. 

 Soulange-Bodin, having been unsuccessful in various attempts to inarch M. ma- 

 crophylla on M. tripetala, thought of tryinn; it on M. auriculiita ; but it only lived 

 a very short time, and then died. It will root by layers with great difficult} ; and 

 plants so raised, from their want of vigour, will probably not be of long duration. 

 The only mode worthy of general adoption is, to raise it from seed ; and, as these 

 are produccil in abundance at Fromont, at the nursery of INI. Godefroy, at Ville 

 d'Avry, and at other places in France, there is no necessity for having re- 

 course to any other method. If any species of magnolia, the young shoots oi 

 which arc so abundant in pith, and the entire plant so liable to die down to 

 the ground and shoot up again, as M. trijjetala and M. macrophylla, is to be 

 grafteil at all, the operation ought, as it appears to us, to be performed on 

 the root, which, as in the case of all ligneous plants, is without pith. 



Slalhtics. The largest Magnul/« macrophylla in England, is that at 

 Arley Hall, the seat of the "Earl of Mount Norris. This fmc tree is a 

 stanilard, 28 ft. 6 in. high, with a trunk 6 in. in diameter at a foot from 

 the ground, and a head 17 ft. in diameter. The next largest standard is 

 that at the Dnkc of Devonshire's villa at Chiswick, which, in 18:35, was 

 22 ft. high. At Ilarringay there is a tree against a wall, which, in 1835, 

 was 22 ft. high, and, like that at the Duke of Devonshire's, it flowers 

 abinulantly every year. It was planted in 1814, and has never receivetl the 

 slightest protection. In the grounds of a villa at Kensington Gore, adjoining 

 the Brompton Nursery, is a standard tree 18 ft. high, which flowers every year. 

 At White Knights there is a standard tree, 20 ft. high, that has been 30 years 

 plantetl. At Southill, in Bedlbnlshire, there is a standartl, 22 years planted, 

 which is 12 ft. high. The tree stands in the open air in the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh anti of Dublin ; but there are no ren)arkable specimens. In France, 

 the largest M. macroi)hylla is at Fromont, which, in 1835, measiu-ed 24 ft., 

 and the branches covered a s|)ace of 15 ft. in diameter. It has flowered every 

 year since 1826, audit ripens seeds in October, from which many young plants 

 have been raised. There are plants of this species, of considerable size, at 

 Ville d'Avry, and in several of the other Parisian nurseries. In Germany, 

 the species is a green-house plant, and in the south of Europe it has not yet 

 been generally tried. There aie plants of it in the collection at Monza. 

 Plants should always be purchased in pots. The price, in London, of two-years- 

 old seedlings, is 15.?.; at BoUwyllcr, ?; and at New York, 1 dollar. 



