Trees Preferring to Grow Near Water: 

 in Swamps and by Running Streams. 



Obscurity can ftcver hangover the swamps nor can the trail of 

 a stream be hidden ; for guarding their borders are the trees, 

 heavily laden perhaps with the moisture they have imbibed 

 from the near water. They ceaselessly stir in the breezes and 

 throw into the air their life-giving vapours and sweetness. 

 Under their shade the wild, vagrant flowers live and die. 

 They gild the streams borders with gold and line the swamps 

 with crimson. When dimness touches them, the trees bestir 

 themselves to carry the flower s seeds away, or they toss them 

 in the water which floats them to another shore. 



Do the trees know the flowers will come again ; and does 

 hope still whisper to them when their own leaves have fallen 

 and the mirthful water is frozen to stillness ? 



GREAT-FLOWERED nAGNOLIA. BULL BAY. (Plate VII.) 



Magnolia fcetida. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Magnolia. Round-topped. 60-80 feet. North Carolina south- April, June. 



ward and westward. August, northward. 



Lower bark : brownish grey, with appressed scales about one inch in 

 length. Branches : lighter in colour, thin, smooth. Leaves : simple ; alter- 

 nate; entire ; with stout petioles; ovate, five to eight inches long and two to 

 three inches broad; evergreen ; thick ; bright green above and shiny. The winter 

 buds and petioles covered on the under side with a rusty looking tomentum. 

 Flowers : cream-white ; very fragrant ; seven, eight or twelve inches in di- 

 ameter; solitary and terminal at the ends of the branches. Sepals: petal-like. 

 Petals: six, nine or twelve ; oval ; concave. Base of the receptacle and lower 

 parts of the filaments bright purple. Fruit: large; ovate; rusty brown; 

 pubescent; of many pods. Seeds: flattened on one "side; slightly triangular ; 

 when released from the pods they hang by threads. 



When this tree, so severe and simple in the outline of its 



