HORTUS VEITCHII 



LOEOPETALUM CHINENSE, R. Br. 



Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiv. p. 620; id. 1883, vol. xix. p. 152, fig. ; Bot. Mag. t. 7979. 



A native of the mountains of China, introduced through Charles 

 Maries in 1880, a member of the family to which the Sweet Gums 

 (Liquidamber) and Witch Hazels (Hamamelis) belong, and originally 

 described under the name of H. chinensis by Eobert Brown in Abel's 

 Narrative of a Journey in the interior of China, p. 375. 



A free blooming shrub with flowers clustered in small heads termi- 

 nating the branches, the calyx pale green, the long linear strap-shaped 

 petals pure white. 



As with many not perfectly hardy plants, it is not generally met with 

 in gardens, but it blooms profusely in winter and early spring, in a small 

 state, and is well adapted for conservatories and the winter garden during 

 the early months of the year. 



MAGNOLIA SALICIFOLIA. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of Trees and Shrubs, 1902, p. 45. 



Of this Japanese species, not yet flowered in Europe, seed was collected 

 on Mount Hakkoda by James H. Veitch, but failed to germinate, and was 

 later successfully introduced through the Arnold Arboretum, U.S.A. 



A small tree with slender branches, willow-like leaves 5 to 6 in. long, 

 light green above, silvery white beneath. 



MAGNOLIA SOULANGEANA, Ilort., var. NIGEA, Hort. 



Nicholson in The Garden, 1884, vol. xxv. p. 276, pi. 434. 



Mr. Nicholson, late Curator of Kew, the first authority of his day on 

 cultivated trees and shrubs, is of opinion that this is of hybrid origin, the 

 possible parents the purple-flowered Magnolia (M. obovata) and the Yulan 

 (M. conspicua), and this is probable, as both the species suggested 

 have been cultivated in the gardens of the Japanese and Chinese 

 from time immemorial. 



The original plant from Japan through the late John Gould Veitch. 



MAGNOLIA STELLATA, Maxim. 



Syns. M. Halleana, S. B. Parsons ; Burgeria stellata, Sieb. & Zucc. 

 The Garden, 1878, vol. xiii. pi. cxxxii. ; PI. Mag. 1878, n.s. pi. 309; Bofc. Mag. t. 6370. 



A delightful hardy shrub long known to science as Burgeria stellata, a 

 name founded on an erroneous observation as to the nature of the fruit, 



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