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THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Apri 27, 1895, 
Magnolia acuminata — The Cucumber Tree, 20 
called by reson of the resemblance between its 
young fruits and a small Cucumber, is one of the 
best trees for planting in bed a “tren to the 
ort ‘ollinsonianus, it was introduced to this 
agn 
planted one 
bed in the best garden 
Magnolia flowered in 
years ago, being the largest and highest tree r 
narenn and is Pie rd 
are s at Kew, Syon Gardens, one 
e a a The flowers are 
slightly fragrant, bell-shaped, and of a glaucous- 
i with yellow; the deciduous 
from Western 
attaining a height of 60 to 90 feet, with a trunk 2 to 
4 feet in diameter. A form with golden leaves 
originated in an American nursery several years ago. 
onsidered by Professor 
s a variety of "M. acuminata. That 
eminent authority on matters appertaining to arbori- 
culture, remarks (Garden 721 Forest, 1889, p. 338), 
“Now er Sigo it must be s has been 76288 just 
like the one, of unknown ciais, long preserved in 
en which has small, canary-yellow flowers, 
adly oval, and occasionally slightly cordate, 
v. 
fessor Gray in 1842 when he assumed control of the 
garden.” ; 
CN E belli —A n ya, 
where it occurs at elevations of from 8000 to 10.000 
feet, and attains a height of 150 wa eee as 
e, fragrant flowers, which vary ur fro 
pale rose to crimson, before 
already mentioned, a besusifally-coloired form of 
this superb tree borne flowers this spring for the 
first time at Fota Island. 
M. conspicua.—Thia species, one of the best 
known and most deservedly popular of all the Mag- 
nolias, is a native of China. It is very generally 
cultivated in Japan, but is regarded as an intro- 
duction, an ay not a genuine member of the Weg. a 
flora, by Professor C. S. nep i in his 
of Japan. It ite flowers, pti 
produced in great profesion on old plants, 5 as 
the grand specimens at yon Gard 
nersbury i This an is the earar in 
order of 3 M, stellata being the first. The 
Yulan, as it is often called, forms a grand object for 
cool 8 decoration, when grown in large 
pots or tubs, and lends itself ee 
at pprap n France. M. a nigra 
dark plum · coloured flowers, and M. Lennei i (a — 
e ber from the same parents) has rich red - 
inted flow ers. A considerable number a hybrids 
Uropean 
Eur pean 
gardens but those just mentioned are the most 
teworthy. (See cen 74 and 75) 
_ M. Fraseri is apostrophized by Bartram 
in his ae - ar. Travels: 
4 inches across, In a wild state the tree rarely 
pears 40 feet in height, 
y — ae an blue or silvery beneat 
: to 
well in tolerably dry situations, and acco 
and Forest, grows much 
h 
husiasts to suggest th 
nolia should be chosen as ae „national flower” of 
mpsoniana, regarded by 
glauca, is 
probably a hybrid between M. glauca and M. Fraseri 
Professor Sargent inclines to the hybrid origin of the 
N and points out in Garden and Forest, vol. i., 
p. 269, where a beautiful figure is given, that although 
the leaves are 5 rom those produced 
by Sareea Sent of M a, the reflexed sepals 
a 
o 
®© 
BS 
et 
ovate-o 
ciam, ap i The flowers, 
medi . in size . those of the 
diflora.— This does best as a wall tree 
Fairly good specimens exist 
m 
the one through which we have just passed sorely 
try them. In Western and Southern France I have 
seen noble specimens, but none to compare with those 
in the South-eastern United States. Here is what 
Bartram says in his 5 : © Behol 
promontory, projecting far in he great river, 
beyond the still lagoon, mi a esi distant from 
me. a m ificent grove arises on its banks 
How majestically stands 
the Laurel, its head forming a perfect cone! Its 
dark green ee 
white flowe are so large as to be sr 
visible at 110 distance of a mile or more 
Laurel M 
e greatly The trunk is perfectly 
word rising in the form of a 3 column, and 
pporting a head like an obtuse cone — A 
number 32 eedling forms have — 
names in gardens, but space fails to mention — in 
per 
leuca. —As far as I know, this species has 
ok. — flowered in this country, but it grows freely 
and is perfectly hardy—at any rate in the neigh- 
bourhood of London. The very fragrant flowers are 
6 or 7 inches across w expanded, with creamy- 
white petals and brilliant scarlet filaments, and are 
8 in May or June, after the leaves are nearly 
he leaves are light bright green above, 
ere in length, by © to 5 in breadth, 
: inc! es in , to 8 in breadth, 
rg at, in his Forest st Flora of 
| which 
rolling hills of Yezo, this species sometimes the low 
a height of 100 fast with trunks 2 feet in 1 —— 
and that its timber is valuable. i 
~M. Kobus,—This species, 223 to the author 
just quoted, grows to a height of 70 or 80 feet in the 
* tere pporo and develo 
„ ps a tall, 
aight trunk, meted 2 fee 
pring Se in diameter, The 
to 5 iseli across when fully 
expanded, ting appear before the leaves, G 
s are given ee F. 
Sargent’s Forest Flora of Japa: 88 
aa binii r North American 
ol k of 3 feet; the 
green — ae silvery-white beneath, The — 
seems silvered over with milk- 
flo owers measure about 10 i inches across, are 
of the most beantifill of all trees, 
— it does not thrive fage in most = 
in this country; but there is a fine tree 
Claremont, which was about 30 feet high an Re 
years ago, 
M. obovat 
æ is a Chinese rr. er believed 
o be a native of Japan, bec car 
* in that 5 3 Was a AA sent to 
Britain., Itis not so desirable from an 1 ornamental 
point of view as M. conspicua, or as many of the 
numerous hybrids which have been raised between it 
and that species. It peas to produce its purple. 
red flowers just after M. conspicua, and does not 
attain such tree - like proportions as does that 
plant. 
M. parviflora is, me age to Professor 
not a native of Jap 
of all its parts, the fewer nerves 
of the leaves, tary the longer peduncle of its flowers, 
which measure 34 to 4 inches in diameter, and are 
white, with the exception of the sepals, which are 
rose-tinted. It forms a small tree with rather 
slender, glabrous branches and pubescent branchlets, 
salicifolia, a Japanese oa „seen growing by 
Professor * rgent in low wet — on Mount 
Ha a da, a slender tree 15 or 20 fee t high, with 
atem inches thick, The foliage and fruit 
are konii in Canton and Forest, but the flowers are 
be hoped that 
soon allow specimens to be distrib: 
M. ‘stellata, — This, althoug 
Japan pe 1 cultivated there, is 
Professor Sargen odu 
first eda in English gardens under the name 
M. Halleana, and is, with us, the first ol 
species to open its i 
this they are in full beauty. 
are white, and measure 3 inches across; the 1 
growing Magn 
than 4 feet or 80 5 th height. (See fig. 73) 
M, tripetala.— The lla- tree, E 
— sof the leaves * crowded into an umbrellir 4 
like circle at the ti a 
slightly- 
was first introduced to this 7 
Philip Miller, a and independently paar g 
or two later by Peter Collinson tros 
It has stately leaves, from 1 to i 
length, and in spite of its lax habit, in 25 
tree where it succeeds, 
ments, It is yet too early to speak with ey 
of the value of this —_ whether it Will b. 
a reji as freely as 80 the older 
be seen. (See fi fig. 72) 
= compressa is — * 
a especting it 
the past — winter v cin 
is reason to hope that it will prove a Geo, Nichol, 
tion to our collections of hardy trees. “a 
dens, Kew, 
