260 TREES AND SHRUBS 



deserves to be for rafters and similar purposes in the 

 greenhouse. 



LOROPETALUM CHINENSE. This Chinese shrub, 

 with its long, pure white, strap-shaped petals, bears 

 much resemblance to the Chionanthus, and is quite 

 as desirable for flowering in pots. It may be either 

 lifted in the autumn or grown altogether in pots. 



MAGNOLIA. The Magnolias can be grown under 

 glass. If allowed to come gradually into bloom in a 

 greenhouse the large flowers will open freely. As a 

 rule they transplant badly, and for that reason, at 

 least the choicer ones, are kept in pots for conve- 

 nience in removal. From this it will be understood 

 that as a rule it is more satisfactory to keep them 

 permanently in pots than to lift them in the autumn. 

 M. purpurea can be grown more easily than any of the 

 others in this form. When grown in pots for the 

 greenhouse, if they get too large for that structure 

 they may be planted permanently out of doors and 

 their place taken by smaller plants. Of those par- 

 ticularly valuable for this treatment are the little M. 

 stellata, a charming shrub ; M. Lenne, which has massive 

 chalice-like flowers, rosy-purple outside ; M. conspicua, 

 M. soulangeana, and M. purpurea among the early 

 Magnolias ; and of those that flower later the Japanese 

 M. parviflora and M. Watsoni do well in pots. 



OLEARIA. The best known of the Daisy trees of 

 New Zealand is O. Haastti, which flowers freely in 

 August. Two at least of the species bloom naturally 

 much earlier, namely O. Gunnii and O. stellulata, and 

 very pretty they are under cover and with their daisy- 



