The Magnolias and the Tulip Tree 



HOW TO TELL MAGNOLIAS WHEN IN FLOWER 



A simple key for the tree lover; free from technicalities and 

 especially designed for use out-of-doors: 



Blooming before the leaves. 



Colour of flowers pure white or nearly so. 



Shape of flowers beil-like yulan 



Shape of flowers star-like. 



Petals 9 to i8, pink streaked outside, .stellata 



Petals 6, pure white kobus 



Colour of flowers pink to purple outside. 

 Size of flowers large, 6 to lo inches. 



Hardy soulangeana 



Tender campbelli 



Size of flowers about 3^ inches obovata 



Blooming after the leaves. 



Colour of flowers greenish acuminata 



Colour of flowers white, with conspicuous colour 

 in centre. 



The petals purple-spotted at base macrophylla 



The stamens with scarlet filaments. 



Leaves mostly clustered at the ends of 



branches hypoleuca 



Leaves scattered along the branches, .watsoni 

 Colour of flowers, pure white. 



Size of flowers small (i to 3 inches across). 



Shrub or tree, 10 to 70 feet high glauca 



Shrub, usually 4 or 5 feet high pumila 



Size of flowers large, 6 to 9 inches across. 



Foliage evergreen fcetida 



Foliage deciduous. 



Leaves eared at base fraseri 



Leaves not eared at base tripetala 



2. Genus LIRIODENDRON, Linn. 



Tulip Tree, Yellow Poplar {Liriodendron Tulipijera, Linn.) 

 A stately tall tree, 80 to 200 feet high, with trunk 5 to 10 feet in 

 diameter, the crov^^n conical at first, spreading in old age. Bark 

 close, thick, intricately furrowed, brov/n. yVood light, soft, 

 brittle, weak, easily worked, pale brown with narrow, white 

 sap wood. Buds reddish with pale bloom, elongated, blunt. 

 Leaves 5 to 6 inches long and wide, 3 or 4 lobed with shallow 



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