THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTURE 



NOVEiMBER, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. JVeio localities of the Ji^agnohn macrophyJIa^ loith 

 the dimensions of a large tree of the JM. grandiflora; and 

 a notice of a neioly discovered species of Sarracen'ia. By 

 A. Gordon. 



Dear SrR: — In my last, I gave you to understand I had 

 found the Magnolm macrophylla in different parts of the State 

 of Mississippi. This splendid specimen of the American for- 

 est having hitherto escaped the researches of hotanists, de- 

 termined me to prosecute the subject and trace its locality, as 

 I had every reason, as mentioned in my former communica- 

 tion, to consider it was more extended than at the time had 

 come under my observation. 



Where I first observed the Magnolia macrophylla, it was in 

 Rankin County, some twenty or thirty miles from Jackson, 

 the capital of the State, and about eight miles from Pearl 

 River; then, within a few miles of Vicksburg, in Warren 

 County; and in the greatest abundance on the plantation of 

 Col. Heburn, nine miles from Vicksburg. I then traced it 

 from V^icksburg to Natchez, in the utmost profusion. From 

 the latter city, in a south-easterly course, wherever the soil 

 or location was favorable, I found it as far as the Chicasahavv 

 River, within a few yards of Mclnnes's Ferry, on the road 

 from Mobile to Natchez; thus constituting its range, north 

 and south, more than two hundred miles, and east and west, 

 over one hundred. I may here remark, in the upper part of 

 the State it is known by the name of Parasol tree, and in the 

 lower, by that of Cucumber tree. Associated with the Mag- 

 nolia macrophylla, I found the M. grandiflora, the splendid 



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