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when foliage, flowers, and perfume are considered, in the world, is 

 the Magnolia grandiflora of our southern States. There, where it 

 grows in the deep alluvial soil of some river valley, to the height of 

 70 or 80 feet, clothed with its large, thick, deep green, glossy leaves, 

 like those of a gigantic laurel, covered in the season of its bloom 

 with large, pure white blossoms, that perfume the whole woods about 

 it with their delicious odor ; certainly, it presents a spectacle of un- 

 rivalled sylvan beauty. Much to be deplored is it, that north of 

 New- York it will not bear the rigor of the winters, and that we are 

 denied the pleasure of seeing it grow freely in the open air. At 

 Philadelphia, it is quite hardy ; and in the Bartram Garden, at 

 Landreth's, and in various private grounds near that city, there are 

 fine specimens 20 or 30 feet high, growing without protection and 

 blooming every year. 



Wherever the climate will permit the culture of this superb 

 evergreen, the ornamental planter would be unpardonable, in our 

 eyes, not to possess it in considerable abundance. There is a variety 

 of it, originated from seed by the English, called the Exmouth Mag- 

 nolia (M. g. exominsis), which is rather hardier, and a much more 

 abundant bloomer than the original species. 



