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FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



Gray says they are seldom cordate * (heart-shaped at 

 the base). The yellow flowers are often slightly 



streaked with red. The tree 

 grows from 20 to 50 feet high. 



Great-leaved 

 Magnolia. 



Magnolia 



macrophylla. 



The great-leaved 



magnolia is a 

 Southern tree, 

 with huge, deep- 

 green leaves (sometimes not less 

 than thirty inches long) clus- 

 tered at the summit of the branches ; 

 they are also woolly -white beneath, 

 and are narrowed down to two small 

 scallops at the base. The bell-shaped 

 flowers are truly Brobdingnagian, for 

 they measure fully eight and even 

 twelve inches across. They are mildly 

 fragrant, and are cream-white, of a very 

 soft tone, with a dull pinkish spot at the 

 base of the petal. The tree grows from 30 to 50 

 feet high, and is found in its wild state from Ken- 

 tucky and North Carolina southward. It is culti- 

 vated as far north as Boston, where, in Jamaica 

 Plain, one of the suburbs, there are two beautiful 



Magnolia 

 macrophylla 



* The species name Magnolia cordata was given it by the 

 younger Michaux ; but Prof. Sargent considers this magnolia a 



variety of 31. acuminata. 



