SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAF, 



flower-pod somewhat in the shape of a pine-apple, which 

 opens when the seed is nearly ripe, and the seeds come 

 out from the sides of this seed-pod and hang suspended 

 from it from a little sort of string. This magnolia is an 

 evergreen, and has long, large, and beautiful leaves. All 

 magnolias may be raised from the seed j but that seed 

 must be brought from the country of which the tree is a 

 native. The seed comes up the first year in the natural 

 ground, but the seedlings must be carefully protected 

 during the winter for a year or two. Second, Mag- 

 nolia tripetella, which the Americans call umbrella-tree, 

 This tree is hardy, and will grow as a standard in any 

 tolerable situation in England. The leaves of this tree 

 are some of the largest and finest in the world, I have 

 some now each of which is about twenty-one inches long*, 

 and nine inches wide in the middle. The flower is white 

 and has three petals, each of very great length and 

 hreadjb. This tree loses its leaves in the fall. Third, 

 Magnolia acuminata. This is another variety. It is hardy, 

 and will very well endure the climate of England. Fourth* 

 Magnolia cordata. This has rather a round leaf, and has a 

 yellow blossom. It is about as tender as the Magnolia 

 Grandiflora. Fifth, Magnolia auriculata. Sixth, Magnolia 

 macrophyUa. Both varieties of the great magnolia or mag- 

 nolia grand! flora^nd both about as tender as that. Seventh 

 Magnolia Glauca,or small Magnolia. This is perfectly hardy, 

 grows in Canada, and in all parts of the United States of 

 America, and is a shrub, take it altogether, excelling 

 every other. It is called the glauca on account of the 

 bluish colour on the under-side of its leaves, which are of 

 a bright green on the upper side, and have the solidity 

 and characteristics of the laurel, though the tr.ee. is, 



