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feet in the South. Although it blooms after 
the leaves appear, the flowers open in 
Georgia as early as April. They are five 
or six inches across. Unfortunately this 
tree is an exceedingly shy bearer. 
Closely allied to the native magnolia is 
the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) which 
bears tulip-shaped flowers three to four 
inches wide and of a greenish yellow color. 
Although devoid of bright appearance they 
are quite numerous and add much to the 
beauty of the tree, which has a pyramidal 
habit and handsome leaves of unique shape. 
A tree which seems to be almost extinct 
in its natural habitat is Gordonia pubescens. 
Diligent search in the sections of Georgia 
where Bartram and the elder Micheaux 
state as having discovered it, have failed to 
find a single specimen. The tree planted 
by Bartram in his botanical garden near 
Philadelphia had attained a height of from 
thirty to forty feet, but succumbed a few 
years ago. There are, however, a few 
trees in cultivation. Two are growing near 
the Horticultural Building at Fairmont 
Park and several fine specimens were shown 
me in the grounds of a Mr. Smith near the 
Bartram Garden at Philadelphia. A few 
plants are said to be found in nurseries but 
they are seldom offered for sale. In its 
native habitat the tree is stated to reach a 
height of forty to fifty feet with spreading 
branches which are finely pubescent at 
the summit, hence its name. Flowers as 
large as some of the Chinese magnolias, 
which they somewhat resemble. They are 
solitary but produced quite profusely. Cor- 
olla white, externally pubescent with num- 
erous stamens and orange colored filaments. 
The flowers are produced throughout the 
summer, the trees at Mr. Smith’s place 
being a mass of blooms when I saw them 
during September. It is to be hoped that 
this very attractive tree may ere long be- 
come more abundant and be included in 
nurserymen’s catalogues. It is perfectly 
hardy at Philadelphia and grows vigorously _ 
in good garden soil. Some French nurseries 
cada csaeet ieee 
The dogwood (Cornus florida) is the most generally 
attractive large flowered tree. Always interesting 
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offer a few plants of it, but it is stated that 
their life is limited to ten to fifteen years. 
This may in a measure be the reason of its 
almost total extinction in its former re- 
stricted habitats. 
The flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) 
has more attractions than any other large- 
flowered tree. The true flower is incon- 
spicuous, the showy part being the four 
white bracts which make a “flower” three 
or four inches across. The display lasts 
for several weeks, beginning in May in the 
North. Its foliage assumes bright colors 
early in the fall and the scarlet fruits are 
also showy. Even when out of bloom it is 
very distinct, because of its beautifully 
veined leaves in summer and conspicuous 
berries in fall and buds in winter. 
There are now several varieties with pale 
to dark rose-colored flowers, than which 
nothing can be more beautiful in early 
spring. ‘The rose-colored varieties do not 
Of the medium sized flowers the hawthorn (Crategus 
Oxyacanthd) is the best. This is the English may 
seem to grow as tall as the typical white 
flowering species, but as these trees are 
always grafted or budded they begin to 
bloom at an earlier age. 
II. MEDIUM-SIZED FLOWERS (13-2 IN. ACROSS) 
Nearly all the most desirable trees with 
medium-sized flowers belong to three great 
genera of the rose family, Prunus, Pyrus and 
Crategus. The first includes the stone 
fruits, the second the pome fruits, and the 
third the haws. 
The earliest of these to bloom are the 
double-flowering peach trees which Robert 
Fortune introduced to the western world 
from China in 1845. Of these the white 
and crimson are the most conspicuous. The 
flowers of the latter are the largest, often 
one. and one-half inches across, and a tree 
of this variety is one of the most strikingly 
beautiful objects in our gardens. The 
double rose is also very handsome. The 
chrysanthemum-flowered variety was dis- 
covered by the writer in an old orchard in 
South Carolina. It yields pale rose-colored 
The catalpa ((. biqnonioides) grows quickly and 
flowers later than most other trees, July in the north 
flowers often two inches across, with the 
centre petals quilled and those outside flat, 
giving it the appearance of a Japanese 
chrysanthemum. By taking a two-year-old 
peach-tree that has been trained so as to 
form a head of either three or four strong 
branches, and budding each branch with a 
different colored variety, a very beautiful 
tree is produced, the three or four colors 
giving the effect of a huge bouquet. 
Blooming at the same period, we have 
the Japanese double-flowering cherries and 
plums; most beautiful, small trees whose 
period of inflorescence, it is to be regretted, 
lasts seldom more than ten days. But these 
trees are gems while in flower. 
In the genus Pyrus we have the double- 
flowering crab-apples which are not only 
profuse flowering trees, but their flowers are 
very fragrant, and range in color from almost 
white to dark rose, according to variety. 
One of the best is Bechtel’s crab, with semi- 
double delicately pink colored flowers. But 
our native species of wild crab apple (Pyrus 
coronaria) is perhaps the most fragrant and 
its single light rose colored flowers, often two 
inches across, are produced in the greatest 
profusion during the early spring. 
We now come to the hawthorns, which have 
large flat clusters of flowers, but are often 
valued even more for the handsome red 
haws or fruits which the single-flowering 
varieties produce. é 
The hawthorn that everybody wants is th 
English hawthorn, or may, of English litera- 
ture (Crategus Oxyacantha), but according 
to Rehder, practically everything cultivated 
under this name belongs to C. monogyna, a 
name that almost never appears in cata- 
logues. The chief distinction is that the 
fruit of the former has two stones; the latter 
only one. To this one-stoned species Rehder 
refers all the double-flowered, rosy-red, 
crimson, cut-leaved, weeping, and ever- 
blooming forms which are popularly supposed 
to be varieties of the English hawthorn. 
This species has the largest flowers, but 
as they are borne in large clusters, the indi- 
vidual flowers have the effect of being 
medium-sized. They openin May. S 
flowering varieties have red or yellow berries 
which last till late in winter. The foliage 
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