CHOOSING SHRUBS AND SMALL TREES 141 



Florida) is found in the woods where it comes into 

 bloom when the leaves of the surrounding trees 

 are just bursting from the buds, and the effect is 

 as if the flowers had been floating through the for- 

 est and were caught on the outstretched branches 

 of the other trees. It is much better used in this 

 way, or on the edge of a wood or grove, as it needs 

 the delicate green to set off its white stars; it is 

 not half as attractive or interesting when planted 

 by itself on the lawn. This tree may be trans- 

 planted from the woods, but good specimens are 

 generally to be found in the nursery, and are surer 

 to succeed. 



MAGNOLIAS are rather formal trees that 

 should be planted in pairs to appear to the best 

 advantage. Very good varieties are soulangeana 

 and conspicui, of very much the same shape and 

 bearing the same kind of flowers, except that the 

 petals of soulangeana have a dark red base. These 

 trees blossom before they throw out their leaves, 

 the end of April, and are often nipped by the frost, 

 when the flowers turn an uninviting brown. There 

 is a shrub-like variety of Magnolia, stellata, which 

 ic rather slow to develop. The flowers are star 



