Luptam.— Cultivation and Acclimatization of Trees, Sc. 295 
Illicium anisatum Japan hardy. 
The aniseed tree. I have only a young plant, which grows well and 
stood this last winter. 
Iochroma tubulosa Yangana tender. 
A very beautiful flowering shrub, but rather tender, the frost cutting it 
back every winter. It grows very freely during the summer, and in autumn 
is covered with bunches of deep blue tubular flowers. A very showy plant. 
Laurus nobilis South Europe hardy 
s camphora Japan tender 
The frat, the sweet bay, is well known ; the last, the camphor laurel, is 
slow of growth, and is hardly hardy enough for our winters. When growing 
well, it is a graceful shrubby tree. 
Lagerstræmia indica ; East Indies hardy. 
"e alba 
Being deciduous, they are hardy ; their foliage is small, but pretty. 
Mine have not bloomed yet. 
Magnolia A ses ite Carolina hardy. 
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soulangeana Hybrid 
The whole of these are very beautiful flowering plants, some growing 
into trees, but mostly shrubs.  Grandiflora thrives well here, after it once 
becomes established in the ground, and when of any size is covered with its 
beautiful fragrant blooms. The Chinese varieties are very free growers, 
with fragrant but smaller flowers than grandiflora. Glauca, called in 
America the swamp laurel has numerous cupped flowers, very fragrant ; 
any labour bestowed on the cultivation of them will be amply repaid by 
their beauty when in bloom ; they like to grow in rich soil. 
Quercus i 
»  luccombiana 
» lanata Japan 
spicata 
» coccinea, and others 
The three first are evergreen oaks, and grow well here; they are valuable 
for planting in windy situations, forming handsome trees. The timber oaks 
do not thrive well on this alluvial soil; it appears to me they prefer more 
clayey ground. 
Raphiolepis indica hardy. 
A very pretty free flowering dwarf be 
