TREES OUTSIDE THE GARDEN 



roadway before them, the cottage behind, and the 

 Sound at some distance farther back, — they have a 

 protection from the elements that has made them live 

 long. To plant such trees, however, in face of high 

 gales or very near the water would be to insure their 

 death. 



M. soulangeana, also a well-known Asiatic variety, 

 is more hardy than the conspicua and therefore a 

 better tree to plant in places where the climate is 

 severe. 



Sometimes I have heard people say that they would 

 not plant magnolias outside their seaside gardens 

 because these trees could not live under such condi- 

 tions. Yet, given the chance, the probability was 

 strong that they not only would have lived, but would 

 have done well. 



The word magnolia carries the mind of the north- 

 erner southward, to where the native magnolias hold 

 sway. 



Never can they be seen in such perfection in the 

 northlands. Still, there are varieties of even these 

 native magnolias, acuminata, glauca, and tripetala, 

 which can be successfully grown as ornamental trees. 

 The great leaved, tropical looking macrophylla has 

 been known to live and to bloom in a part of the North 

 where the thermometer falls to ten degrees below 

 zero. In places where it is possible for them to live, 

 their great beauty makes a strong claim for their 

 encouragement, and when the planting ground is so 

 situated as to put their hardiness to too great a test, 

 they can only be discarded with intense regret. 



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