MAGNOLIA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



MAGNOLIA. 



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lovely flowering tree on warm soils in the 

 southern counties of England, as at 

 Claremont. 



M. pbovata is a native of China ; in 

 Japan it only occurs in cultivation. It is 

 a dwarf-growing bush, perfectly hardy in 

 the South of England, and bears freely 

 its purple sweet-scented flowers, though 

 not in the same profusion as are those of 

 the white-flowered M. conspicua. This 

 species has a number of synonyms, 

 amongst which the following are the most 



Magnolias to flower, and it should be 

 extensively grown for the beauty of its 

 starry white flowers. A variety with 

 blush-coloured flowers has been sent 

 from Japan by Mr. Maries. Both are 

 dwarf-growing deciduous shrubs. 



M. tripetala, a native of the southern 

 United States, has large slightly-scented 

 white flowers, from 5 to 8 in. across, and 

 obovate-lanceolate leaves, from i to 3 ft. 

 in length. In a wild state the tree rarely 

 exceeds 40 ft. in height. Philip Miller 



Magnolia obovata var. 



frequently met with in books and nursery 

 catalogues : M. discolor, M. denudata, M. 

 liliflora, M. purpurea, Talauma Sieboldi, 

 etc. There are several varieties, but these 

 differ so slightly from each other and 

 from the type, that descriptions without 

 good coloured figures would be next to 

 useless. The best are Borreri, -angusti- 

 folia, and erubescens. 



M. stellata. An excellent coloured 

 plate of this very beautiful Japanese 

 shrub was published in The Garden in 

 June 1878, under the name of M. Halle- 

 ana. This species is the earliest of the 



was the first to introduce this fine species 

 to British gardens. Other names for it 

 are M. Umbrella and M. frondosa. 



M. Watsoni. A coloured plate of this 

 beautiful Japanese species was published 

 in The Garden in December 1883, under 

 the name of M. parviflora ; at that time 

 it had not flowered in British gardens. 

 It is hardy, has large creamy-white 

 fragrant flowers with petals of great sub- 

 stance and deep red filaments, which add 

 materially to the beauty of the blossoms. 

 The true M. parviflora is probably not in 

 cultivation in Britain. N. 



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