THE NEW TREE BEAUTY 267 



The Magnolias are important trees and shrubs, more 

 often grown on walls than in the open in northern climes, 

 but the smaller kinds are used for shrubberies. 



The species most generally seen on houses is grandiflora, 

 the Bull Bay, a vigorous plant, by no means beautiful in 

 leaf or habit, but evergreen, and bearing large, sweet, 

 white flowers over a long period in summer. It is too 

 strong for small buildings. The Exmouth variety of it 

 is a fine form. The most popular of the deciduous 

 Magnolias is probably conspicua, the Eastern Yulan, 

 which should also have a wall in cold, exposed places, 

 but is often grown in the open as a shrub or small tree. 

 The waxy white flowers are very beautiful and sweet. 

 There are fine forms of this plant called alba superba and 

 Andre Leroy. Soulangeana is sometimes catalogued as 

 a variety, but in reality is a hybrid raised by crossing 

 conspicua and obovata ; its white flowers are thickly 

 flushed with red. Stellata (syn. Halleana) is growing in 

 favour for use in sheltered parts of the shrubbery and 

 flower garden. It must not be put into an exposed 

 place, for it blooms very early, before the leaves are out. 

 There is a rose-coloured form. Parviflora and Watsoni 

 are newer Magnolias which might be grown by anyone 

 who wanted to form a collection, for they have beautiful 

 flowers ; the red anthers show conspicuously in the snow- 

 white blooms of the former. Both species are from 

 Japan. Tripetala has large white flowers. Lennei is 

 another fine species, white inside, purplish red outside. 



The Mulberry is occasionally met with in large gardens. 

 In some of the great ducal places of England the black 

 Mulberry, Morus nigra, is cultivated methodically for 

 its fruit, and pruned regularly on the spur system, like a 

 Grape Vine. But more often one sees the tree as a large 

 standard, with a spreading head, left to grow as it will, 



