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many groups, such trees as the thorns, the hagberry, the 

 buckeyes, yellow-wood and flowering ash may be used for 

 the more central parts with good results. Catalpas, Pau- 

 lownias, and Chinese magnolias are exceptionally beautiful 

 for specimens on the lawn. 



THE MAGNOLIA FAMILY. 



Tulip Tree, Liriodendron tulipifera. This is a well 

 known, tall and handsome tree, with broad, lyrate leaves 

 and showy, greenish-yellow flowers marked inside with rich 

 orange, and resembling a tulip in shape. The flowers are 

 produced in great numbers late in the spring. The tulip 

 tree is found in different kinds of soil, but chiefly on mod- 

 erately rich and well drained ground. As a small tree, 

 twenty to thirty feet high, it is very ornamental with a 

 broadly pyramidal or conical crown. It grows rapidly 

 and must be removed as soon as it becomes too large for a 

 place. 



Chinese Magnolia, Magnolia conspicua. A small tree 

 with a rounded crown, smooth branches and obovate, pointed 

 leaves about six inches long. The fragrant flowers are of 

 a milky-white color, erect, six inches in diameter, expanding 

 before the leaves in early spring. There is a variety or 

 hybrid with purplish flowers known as Soulange's magnolia, 

 which is equally valuable. The purple magnolia ( M. pur- 

 purea) is a Japanese shrub or small tree with obovate 

 leaves and showy flowers, white inside, purple without. 

 Magnolia stellata is also a very early flowering species of 

 great beauty. These are fine trees for specimens on the 



