DECIDUOUS FLOWERING TREES 45 
stature of trees comprise several of such great beauty 
that a few of them should be given a place in the 
smallest of gardens. The most handsome and desir- 
able are: The Yulan (Magnolia conspicua), a handsome 
species, ranging from fifteen to twenty-five feet in 
height, and producing in great profusion early in the 
spring large pure white flowers. Soulange’s Magnolia 
(M. Soulangeana) is a very handsome hybrid, closely 
resembling in general character, and in the size and 
shape of the flowers, the species first mentioned. It 
however differs from it in the flowers being of a bright 
rose colour, and produced a fortnight or so later. There 
is a darker coloured form of the last-named known as 
C. Soulangeana nigra. Lenné’s Magnolia (M. Lenné) is 
another hybrid of great beauty; the growth resembles 
that of the Yulan, and the flowers are of large size and 
of a bright rose colour. 
The deciduous magnolias here mentioned should be 
assigned a prominent position on the lawn, and it will 
be an advantage to plant them where they will be 
slightly sheltered from the easterly winds, which some- 
times damage the flowers. In preparing the stations 
make a liberal addition to the soil of turfy loam, peat 
and leaf-mould. 
Pyrus or FLowerinc Crass.—The crabs remarkable 
for the beauty of their flowers should be largely planted 
in the pleasure grounds. They are all more or less 
elegant in growth and free in fowering, and range from 
fifteen to twenty feet in height. Pyrus floribunda is ex- 
tremely graceful and has pale pink flowers, bright red 
in the bud. The varieties of P. malus, known as 
coccinea and rosea, are both desirable, the flowers red and 
rose respectively. P. spectabilis is hardly so graceful as 
the foregoing, but it has larger flowers, these being of a 
bright rose colour, and very effective, and P. daccata, 
a handsome species with white flowers. 
