Trees Preferring to Grow Near Water: 

 in Swamps and by Running Streams. 



Obscurity can never hang over the sioa nips nor can the trail of 

 a stream be Jiidicn ; for guarding their borders are the trees^ 

 heavily laden perhaps witli the moisture they have imbibed 

 from the near luater. They ceaselessly stir in the breezes and 

 throiv into the air their life-giving vapours and sweetness. 

 Under their shade the zvild, vagrant flowers live and die. 

 They gild the stream's borders with gold and line the swamps 

 xvith crimson. When dimness touches them, the trees bestir 

 themselves to carry the flower s seeds azcay, or they toss them 

 in the ivater ivhieh floats them to another shore. 



Do the trees know the floivers luill come again ; and does 

 hope still zvhisper to them zvhen their own leaves have fallen 

 and the mirthful ivater is frozen to stillness ? 



GREAT-FLOWERED riAQNOLIA. BULL BAY. (/'/«/<? F//.) 



Magnolia fcetida. 



Lower bark: brownish grey, with appressed scales about one inch in 

 length. Branches: lighter in colour, tiiin, smooth. Leaves: simple; alter- 

 nate; entire; with stout petioles; ovate, five to eight inches long and two to 

 three inches broad; evergreen ; thick ; bright green above and shiny. The winter 

 buds and petioles covered on the under side with a rusty looking tomentum. 

 Flowers : cream-white ; very fragrant ; seven, eight or twelve inches in di- 

 ameter; solitary and terminal at the ends of the branches. Se/>als: petal-like. 

 Petals : si.x, nine or twelve ; oval ; concave. Base of the receptacle and lower 

 parts of the filaments bright purple. Fruit: large; ovate; rusty brown; 

 pubescent; of many pods. 6V^^/j; flattened on one side; slightly triangular ; 

 when released from the pods they hang by threads. 



When this tree, so severe and simple in the outline of its 



