Trees Preferring to Grow in Rich Soil: 

 Forests and Thickets. 



7/ was twilight in the denser woods, 



A 11 the birds had ceased to sing, 

 And a wondrous stillness filled the air 



As each vine did closer cling. 



Not a leaf was stirred on all the trees, 

 ' Twas as though their trunks were stone. 



On the sultry air all there seemed carved ; 

 Too heavy and sad to moan. 



Had the earth just rung for evening prayer, 

 The twilight breeze lulled to sleep ? 



Or was it a painting, where all is dead, 

 And shadows are long and deep ? 



No voice came the question to answer, 



Nor sign from the cloudless sky ; 

 ' Till frightened perhaps by the calmness, 



Sailed high a white butterfly. 



CUCUMBER TREE. MOUNTAIN MAGNOLIA. 



{Plate LXXIV.) 

 Magnblia acuminata. 



FAMILY 8HAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Magnolia. Pyramidal, slender. 60-90 feet. Southern N.Y. south- April-June. 



ward and westward. 



Bark : dark; rough. Branchlets: pubescent. Leaf-buds: silky; pubescent. 

 Leaves: simple ; alternate; petioled and scattered along the branches ; oblong, 

 pointed at the apex and rounded at the base. Dark green above, lighter below 



