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threads, curious sights, if you do not know the fruiting 

 habits of the magnolias. The flowers of this tree break 

 out in May or June and are not very conspicuous. They 

 are small, greenish-yellow, six petaled, and about 

 three inches wide. You cannot fail to find them, close 

 by the Corylopsis in the northeasterly part of the Ram- 

 ble. Two are quite near the Corylopsis, and there are 

 some more to the westward and a little southward as 

 you follow the path that skirts the southerly border oi 

 the open stretch of green here. 



Magnolia Soulangeana. (Soulange's Magnolia. No. 

 17.) You will have little trouble in picking out this 

 beautiful hybrid magnolia, if you are passing it in time 

 of bloom. This is usually in April. Afar off, through 

 the leafless trees, you can see its soft, lovely tints of 

 purplish pink and white. The bloom is profuse, and, 

 in its perfection, is almost cloudlike in its fullness. 

 These flowers, chalice-shaped, seem to sit upon the 

 branches in a way that makes you think of vases. Their 

 petals are about four or five inches long, six to nine in 

 number, cream-white on the 'inside, but on the outside 

 softly flushed with pink, deeping down at the base of 

 the flower to a deep purple. Emblem of dawn, is this 

 lovely blossom. Roseate herald of the flowers that are 

 so soon to burn on bush and tree, how incomparably 

 beautiful is thy hue in those bare April days while yet 

 the tang of winter is in the air ! 



If you take the path that leads up northerly from the 

 bust of Schiller, and follow it to its second fork, north, 

 then turn to your right, walk easterly to the second fork 

 of the path, you will find a very good specimen of this 



