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when foliage, flowers, and perfume are considered,-=-in the world, is 

 the Magnolia grandiflora of our southern States. There, where it . 

 grows in the deep alluvial soil of some river valley, to the height of 

 70 or 80 feet, clothed with its large, thick,,deep green, glossy"leaves, 

 like those of a gigantic laurel, covered in the season of its bloom 

 with large, pure white blossoms, that perfume the whole.woods about 

 it with their delicious odor ; certainly, it presents a spectacle of un- 

 rivalled ay Ivan, beauty. Much to be deplpred is it, that north of 

 New- York it will not bear the rigor of , the winters, alid that we are 

 denied the pleasure of seeing it grow freely in the open air. At 

 Philadelphia, it is quite hardy ; and in the Bartram Garden, at 

 Landreth's, and in various private grounds near that city, there are 

 fine specimens 20 or 30 feet hiib, , growing without protection and 

 blooming every year. ~ • 



Wherever the climate will permit the culture of this superb 

 , evergreen, the ornamental planter would be unpardonable, in our 

 eyes, not to possess it in' considerable abundance. There is a variety 

 of it, originated from seed by the English, called the Exmouth Mag- 

 nolia (M. g. exominsis), which is rather hardier,- and a much more 

 abundant bloomer than the original species. 



