TREES AND SHRUBS 



Flowers blue, purple, or rose, large, drooping ; solitary on the young wood ; 

 peduncles longer than leaves ; Sepals petaloid, obovate, spreading ; Fruit an 

 etaario of achenes. 



heaves simple or ternate, entire, acute or obtuse. 



A deciduous climbing shrub. 



Introduced from S. Europe; cultivated in 1.509 by Hugh Morgan, 

 apothecary to Queen Elizabeth. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I Thalamifloroe 



Natural Order . . . Magnoliacece 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate, simple leaves, often coriaceous ; leaf 

 buds enclosed in convolute membranous stipules ; Sepals 3, usually petaloid, 

 deciduous ; Petals 6 or more, 3 in a whorl, imbricate ; Stamens indefinite, 

 hypogynous ; Carpels numerous, free, or cohering at base ; Fruit an etaerio 

 of follicles or achenes ; seeds with an aril- like testa. 



The Order much resembles Ranunculacea?, but the members are always 

 trees or shrubs. The name was given in honour of Pierre Magnol (1638- 

 1715), Professor of Medicine and Prefect of Montpellier Botanic Gardens. 



CUCUMBER TREE, Magnolia acuminata. 



Gardens, shrubberies. Makes a handsome tree when planted singly in 

 the park or pleasure ground. May — July. 



The Magnolias or Water-lily Trees comprise about a dozen distinct 



species of ornamental hardy deciduous trees or shrubs, besides which there 



are some half-dozen others of garden origin. They thrive best in a rich, 



deep sandy loam, of free and open texture, and when in a sheltered position 



or against a south or south-west wall. They are somewhat impatient of 



root disturbance. They are propagated by layering in summer or autumn, 



grafting in heat in July or August, and by seeds sown in sandy soil in 



spring or autumn. Seeds should be sown as soon as ripe. 



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