Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
The large-leaved magnolia (AZ. macrophylla) is the 
only remaining native species cultivated at the North, 
with the most tropical aspect of all the group. But our 
finest representatives of this family, as we are so often 
compelled to admit, come from abroad, the most 1m- 
portant of which is the yulan from China. As it has 
been referred to elsewhere, it need only be added that 
its magnificent bloom in April ushers in the spring with 
more pomp than any other species, native or foreign. 
The best-known foreign magnolia is the purple-flow- 
ered, and the hybrid between the purple and the yulan, 
whose mass of immense bloom on leafless shrubs makes 
it extremely showy just at the season when it will be 
most conspicuous and appreciated. Other foreign sorts 
are being introduced, but it seems hardly possible that 
anything new of this type can rival or displace what 
we already have. 
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