64 JUNE EFFECTS ON THE LA WN. 



buried as they are among the broad, glistening and beautiful 

 leaves. These flowers bear a distinct resemblance to those 



of the bulbous tulip, and 

 cannot therefore be other 

 than interesting. 



But let us turn again 

 to one of the most impor- 

 tant families of flowering 

 plants to be seen upon the 

 lawn. I refer to the mag- 

 nolias. Few genera show 

 bloom, by means of one or 

 other of their varieties, as 

 long as the magnolias. 

 From mid- April to mid- 

 summer we fail not to have 



beautiful flowers on some one of these plants. In June we 

 have at least eight or ten species and varieties presenting their 

 full glory of inflorescence. Old familiar forms are here, as 

 well as one or two as rare as any plant to be found on the 

 choicest lawn. Nothing should be more familiar among trees 

 than the cucumber tree (Magnolia acuminata), but its 

 flowers in June are of moderate size and somewhat in- 

 significant in appearance with their greenish-yellow tints. 



A much finer variety than M. acuminata is M. cordata, 

 an American tree not very unlike the cucumber tree, but 

 far more choice and uncommon. It has a fine pyramidal 

 shape, and a comparatively small heart-shaped leaf, whence 

 the name. Magnolia cordata is a strangely disregarded 

 ornamental plant, exhibiting one of those curious in- 



