Magnolia 



1595 



M. Kobus was introduced into England by Maries in 1879; and one of the 

 original trees 1 at Coombe Wood, which died in 1906, was about 20 ft. high in 1902. 

 Some of the specimens of M. stellata at Kew were grafted on stock of M. Kobus, 

 obtained from this source. This species was again introduced 2 about 1887 by 

 Messrs. R. Veitch and Sons, Exeter, who reported that it proved fast in growth, 

 some of the plants, transplanted two or three times, having attained 12 to 14 ft. 

 in height in seven or eight years. 



We have seen no large specimens in England, except one at Abbotsbury, 

 which has borne flowers for the past ten years, and was about 25 ft. high in July 

 191 2. A tree at Kew, obtained from Harvard in 1889, is only 15 ft. high. One in 

 Victoria Park, Bath, about 13 ft. high, produced flowers very freely in 191 1, but set no 

 fruit. 8 In Mr. Thomas Irvine's garden at Newry, there is a fine specimen, planted 

 about twenty-one years ago, which is 18 ft. high. It produces flowers in abundance 

 every year, and is very thriving. (A. H.) 



MAGNOLIA SALICIFOLIA 



Magnolia salicifolia, Maximowicz, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xvii. 418 (1872), and Mel. Biol. viii. 509 

 (1872); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. Japon, i. text 72, t. 40, figs. 18-31 (1899) ; Sargent, in 

 Garden and Forest, vi. 65, fig. 12 (1893), and Forest Flora of Japan, 10, fig. 4 (1894). 



Buergeria (?) salicifolia, Siebold and Zuccarini, in Abh. Akad. Miinchen, iv. pt. ii. 187 (1845). 



A small deciduous tree, attaining in Japan, about 30 ft. in height and 4 ft. 

 in girth. Bark smooth. Young branchlets glabrous, slightly glaucous. Leaves 

 membranous, lanceolate, 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to \\ in. broad, gradually tapering to an 

 acuminate and often curved apex, cuneate at the base ; upper surface light green, 

 glabrous ; lower surface pale, more or less covered with a minute pubescence ; 

 punctate with numerous translucent dots ; lateral nerves, about twelve pairs, yellowish, 

 as is also the midrib ; petiole glabrous. 



Flowers campanulate, 3 to 4 in. across ; sepals green, much smaller than the 

 petals, spreading, early deciduous ; petals six, white, oblong-spatulate, spreading, 

 slightly reflexed at the apex, about 2\ in. long. Fruit narrowly cylindric, 3 in. long, 

 pale brown ; seeds compressed, triangular, almost black. 



This little-known species is a native of Japan, where it grows in mountain 

 forests in Hondo, at 2000 to 5000 feet elevation. It was introduced 4 in 1892 into 

 the Arnold Arboretum by Professor Sargent, who collected seed on Mount Hakkoda ; 

 and is represented at Kew by a small specimen obtained from Yokohama in 1906. 

 This, as well as a shrub at Arley, flowered 5 for the first time in 1912. The flowers 

 are handsome and fragrant. (A. H.) 



1 Note in Arboretum Herbarium, Kew. It is impossible to say whether Maries's introduction was typical M. Kobus or 

 var. borealis ; but all the specimens which we have seen in cultivation belong to the former. 



2 Gard. Chron. xxxvii. 265, Supply. Must. (1905). 



3 It was reported, in Gard. Chron. xxxvi. 322 (1904), to have produced fruit, when about 8 ft. high in 1904. 



4 It is mentioned in Veitch's Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs, 1902, p. 45. 

 6 Cf. Gard. Chron. Ii. 222, 245, fig. 99 (1912). 



