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The best Bartram specimen is seventy 

 feet high and five and a half feet in circum 

 ference. 



The M. PYRIMIDATA of Bartram is not in 

 the collection now, and is probably a variety 

 of this. 



3. M. CONSPICUA, Salisbury. Leaves ob- 

 ovate, abruptly terminating to a point. 

 Flowers appearing before the leaves. Chi 

 nese magnolia ; yulan. Flowering in April. 



It is a native of China, where it is said to 

 have been in cultivation over one thousand 

 years ; and well it deserves to be. Flower 

 ing in the greatest profusion, and at a season 

 when there is nothing else in bloom, and 

 these flowers, too, combining the fragrance 

 of the lily with the beauty of the rose what 

 can be more desirable ? It thrives best in a 

 deep rich loam in a sheltered locality. In 

 England, it seldom grows over ten or twelve 

 feet; here, it will probably rival it in its native 

 localities. The Bartram specimen is small; 

 but there are many fine specimens in the 

 vicinity of the city. It is readily propagated 

 from seed, which it sparingly produces. The 

 best plan is by grafting on the acuminata. 



