No, 474. 
MAGNOLIA CORDATA, 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
This is a native of Upper Carolina and 
Georgia, where according to Michaux, it 
becomes a tree of forty or fifty feet in 
height. It is deciduous, and supports the 
cold of our severest winters uninjured, hay- 
ing been introduced about the year 1801, 
since which time it has remained with us, 
without the least protection. It flowers 
every year in great plenty during the 
months of May ane bip: EEE yes. 
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It p. Led dm Ove 
by layers, but we have succeeded very well 
in budding, and inarching it upon the M. 
purpurea, which being a plant of easy in- 
crease, forms a very convenient stock for it. 
It thrives best planted in the full ground, in 
soil composed of one half peat and one half 
fresh loam. 
