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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



Unless grafted or budded on the acuminata, it is only a dwarf, 

 growing from six to twenty feet high more like a bush than a 

 tree. In moist, cool situations it often flowers all the season, 

 June to September; but in open, exposed, sunny locations it 

 flowers but once, in spring. The fragrance of its flowers, 

 together with the rich, glossy, pale-green foliage and young 

 shoots, form for it a shrub tree that were it to be now newly 

 introduced, would cause an excitement rarely known in the 

 arboricultural world. There are a number of sub-varieties, as 



Fig. 13. Magnolia Conspicua. 



longifolia, Qordondana, Thompsoniana, etc., better, because larger 

 in foliage, and perhaps a little stronger in growth; but their 

 hardihood in all situations remains yet to be tested. 



Magnolia tripetela, called the umbrella tree, when grown 

 north of Philadelphia, seldom acquires much size; and although 

 perfectly hardy where it has a season warm enough to ripen its 

 wood, yet the main stem often dies when it has acquired a 

 height of twelve to flfteen feet and a size of four to six inches 

 diameter ; the crown and root, however, do not die, but the root 



