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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
515 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 
Forbes’ Illustrated Catalogue for 1896 
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THE 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1808. 
THE MAGNOLIAS, 
r seems appropriate, now that the Magnolia 
commenoed, to string together 
few notes respesting the 
genus— i in 
cultivation in this country. And it is not too 
ate now to — — there i is — A 
MArA 
Ss 
uch mor ucocess f 
now than ‘for those moved some months 0. 
Many of the species have rather thick, fleshy 
roots, and if the injured portions are not o 
away, the said roots havea way of rotting further 
and further back. By careful manage 
growth begins, Magnolias are not more difficult 
to “move” than most other trees, in spite of 
their reputation to the contrary, 
Most—indeed, nearly all—of the species in 
„„ a nmin 
— beautiful of all cultivated ted treos and shan 
One exception is the Chinese 
(Botanical Magazine, t. 2 which — 2 
be grown under glass. M. Campbellii, an Eastern 
ayan species, w expecta- 
tions —4 the — of the figure in 
s Himalayan Plants, has not realised 
ago in the late Mr. Crawford, 
, in southern Ireland, and was i 
from material Ke e 
Botanical Magazine, t. 1 the 3 
plant, however, was a pale-flowered form, very 
much inferior to that kaiia in the first-men- 
tioned work, Now, another plant has flowered 
at Fota Island, in another famous garden of 
southern Ireland, and this—a fine specimen, 
feet i 
species have not 
yet been introduced to cultivation, viz., M. glo- 
bosa, M. sphenocarpa, and NM. Griffithi. At 
least three others - and this number may be con- 
district, 
e species from 
ith 
bath large eg eae + 
