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magnificent foliage plant. It is a large bush, from ten 

 to twenty feet tall, with gray-green leaves on red 

 stalks and I have measured the leaf-blade eight inches 

 long and five and a quarter inches wide! The leaves 

 rather suggest those of the Yulan (Magnolia denudata), 

 so much so in fact that when I discovered the plant 

 I momentarily took it for a species of Magnolia. 



Of new trees worthy of recommendation there are 

 many, but I have space to mention only a dozen. 

 The Bull Bay (Magnolia grandiflora) of the south- 

 eastern states is rightly appreciated as one of the 

 noblest and beautiful of all flowering evergreen trees. 

 From China, gardens have received a closely allied 

 species (M. Delavayi) which has larger and pointed 

 leaves, dull green above and pale below and equally 

 large, white cup-shaped flowers. These two Mag- 

 nolias are of about equal hardiness and are most 

 worthy companions. 



An ornamental flowering tree is Carrieria calycina 

 with its bright green oblong leaves and pyramidate 

 heads of ivory-white waxy flowers. It is a much- 

 branched, flat-headed tree of medium height and the 

 flowers are borne conspicuously at the ends of the 

 shoots. 



One of the most beautiful of small trees is Sta- 

 phylea holocarpa with large pendent clusters of pure 



