170 PEACTICAL rOEESTET. 



a deep rose. A tropical-lookiBg tree, growing thirty to forty 

 feet high. Wood soft, and of little Talue. A rare tree in 

 nature, and not found anywhere in great abundance, but scat- 

 teringly in North Carolina to Florida, and Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. A tree thirty to forty feet high, with a stem a foot 

 or a little more in diameter. Quite hardy in the vicinity of 

 New York City, but tender farther north. 



M. Umbrella, Lam., M. tripeleta, L. — Umbrella Tree. — Leaves 

 clustered at the ends of the branches, obovate-oblong, twelve 

 to eighteen inches long, pointed ; downy beneath, but becom- 

 ing smooth with age. Flowers of about nine petals, white, six 

 to eight inches broad. Fmit oblong, four to six inches long, 

 rose-coloi-ed when mature ; quite ornamental. A small, rather 

 straggling growing tree, thirty to forty feet high. Western 

 New York, Alleghany County in the hiUs, and southward in 

 the mountains of Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Northern Ala- 

 bama arid Georgia, and westward to Kentucky and Tennessee. 

 A hardy and very handsome tree. Wood rather soft and of lit- 

 tle value. 



M. Thompsoniana. — ^Thompson's Magnolia. — Supposed to be a 

 hybrid between M. glaiica and M. Umbrella. A medium sized 

 tree, with the habits of the last, but blooming irregularly through- 

 out the summer. Flowers large, creamy- white and fragrant. 

 Propagated by grafting on the stocks of M. acuminata, which 

 is also the best stock upon which to work nearly all of the 

 species and varieties in cultivation, including the 



FOEEIGK SPECIES AND VAEIETIES. 



Of these there are quite a large number, mainly from China 

 and Japan, most of which are hardy in our Northern States. 

 Authorities do not agree as to which should be considered as 

 species or varieties, but as they are all cultivated as ornamental 

 trees or shrubs, and not for any economic purpose, I wUl only 

 name a few of the best known without regard to their botam- 

 cal classification. The flowers of the following appear early in 

 spxlng, before the leaves, or with them, and are very showy 

 when not cut oflE by frosts, as they often are — in and above the 

 latitude of New York. 



M, atropnrpnrea. — ^Dark purple flowers, blooming rather late or 

 with the opening of the leaves. 



M. conspicna. — ^Yulan ; or, Chinese White.— Flowers very large," 



