Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



The large-leaved magnolia {M. macrophylld) is the 

 only remaining native species cultivated at the North, 

 with the most tropical aspect of all the group. But our 

 finest representatives of this family, as we are so often 

 compelled to admit, come from abroad, the most im- 

 portant of which is the yulan from China. As it has 

 been referred to elsewhere, it need only be added that 

 its magnificent bloom in April ushers in the spring with 

 more pomp than any other species, native or foreign. 



The best-known foreign magnolia is the purple-flow- 

 ered, and the hybrid between the purple and the yulan, 

 whose mass of immense bloom on leafless shrubs makes 

 it extremely showy just at the season when it will be 

 most conspicuous and appreciated. Other foreign sorts 

 are being introduced, but it seems hardly possible that 

 anything new of this type can rival or displace what 

 we already have. 



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