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tion, because every one who has a few yards of ground may for a trifle, 

 and a very few years' patience, have one equally handsome. The Magnolia 

 in the Kensington Nursery is a shoot from the centre of a stool of about 

 seven years' growth ; it is nine feet high, and about the same width, and at 



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this moment is covered with 1 100 tulip-like blossoms, as white as snow, and 

 highly odoriferous. There are fine specimens of the same tree at Lee's nur- 

 sery, Harringay, Eastwell Park, Wormleybury, (G. M. vol. i. p. 154.), and a 

 few other places. Good plants in pots cost 7s. 6d. each. No person who has 

 the slightest pretension to a love of plants, and a garden, ought to be with- 

 out it, and the following : Magnolia purpurea, and Photinia glabra, in pots, 



