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iage, rusty beneath ; it produces its flowers much earlier and 

 more abundantly than the original sort. 



We regret that this tree is too tender to bear the open air 

 north of Philadelphia, as it is one of the choicest evergreens. 

 At the' nurseries of the Messrs. Landreth, and at the Bartram 

 Botanic Garden of Col. Carr, near that city, some good 

 specimens of this Magnolia and its varieties are growing 

 thriftily ; but in the State of New- York, and at the east, it 

 can only be considered a green-house plant. 



The Cucumber Magnolia, (C accuminata,) (so called 

 from the appearance of the young fruit, which is not unlike a 

 green cucumber,) takes the same place in the north, in point 

 of majesty and elevation, that the Big laurel occupies in the 

 south. Its northern limit is Lake Erie ; and it abounds 

 along the whole range of the Alleghanies to the southward, 

 in rich mountain acclivities, and moist sheltered valleys. 

 There it often measures three or four feet in diameter, and 

 eighty in height. The leaves, which are deciduous, like those 

 of all the Magnolias except the M. grandiflora, are also about 

 six inches long, and four broad, accuminate at the point, of 

 a bluish green on the upper surface. The flowers are six 

 inches in diameter, of a pale bluish white, sometimes tinged 

 with yellow, and slightly fragrant. The fruit is about three 

 inches long, and cylindrical in shape. Most of the inhabi- 

 tants of the country bordering on the Alleghanies, says Mi- 

 chaux, gather these cones about midsummer, when they are 

 half ripe, and steep them in whiskey; the liquor produced, 

 they take as an antidote against the fevers prevalent in those 

 districts. 



The Umbrella Magnolia, [M. tripetala,) though found 

 sometimes in the northwest of New- York, is rare there, and 

 abounds most in the south and west. It is a smaller tree 



