THE MAGNOLIAS 



family. Like a number of other valuable plants it was 

 first introduced into this country and afterward into 

 Europe where it flowered for the first time in the 

 garden of Mr. B. E. C. Chambers at Grayswood Hill, 

 Haslemere, Surrey, in June, 1905. Closely related 

 to the Honoki is a Chinese species (M. officinalis) 

 which is growing in England from seeds which I 

 sent there in 1900, but has not proved hardy in the 

 Arnold Arboretum. In China, the bark and dried 

 flowers of this Magnolia are a highly valued tonic 

 medicine. 



A Magnolia whose beauty fascinated me in the 

 forests of Korea is M. parviflora, which also grows in 

 southern Japan. Its snow-white flowers are egg-, 

 shaped in bud and bowl-shaped with infolded petals 

 when expanded, and have scarlet stamens and long 

 stalks. The specific name is misleading for the flowers 

 are from 4 to 5 inches across. It is a large bush 

 often 20 feet high, of straggling habit, with ovate 

 leaves from 3 to 6 inches long by from 2 to 4 inches 

 wide, and is remarkably floriferous. It delights in 

 rocky, granite country and is especially happy by the 

 side of forest streams. On the Diamond Mountains 

 in northeast Korea, where the winter temperature 

 is more severe than in Massachusetts, this lovely 

 Magnolia is a feature, and I have hopes of this Ko- 

 rean form being a better garden plant than the Japa- 



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