GENERAL CATALOGUE. 53 
AMERICAN SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
Magnolia acuminata. CUCUMBER MAGNOLIA. A. 
A beautiful pyramidal growing tree, attain- 
ing from 60 to go feetin height. Leaves6 
to g inches long, and bluish green; flowers 
yellow, tinted with bluish purple; fruit, 
when green, resembles a cucumber, hence 
the name. June. 50c. 
M. cordata. Heart shaped leaves, yellow flowers. 
$2.00. 
M. macrophylla. GREAT-LEAVED MAGNOLIA. B. 
A superb species, of medium size. Leaves 
two feet in length, pubescent and white 
beneath. Flowers white, of immense size, 
when fully blown, 8 to 10 inches in diam- 
eter, appearing in June. A rare, tropical 
looking tree. $2.00. 
M. tripetela. UMBRELLA TREE. B. A hardy, 
medium sized tree, with immense leaves, 
and large, white flowers, 4 to 6 inches in 
diameter, appearing in June. $1.00. 
CHINESE SPECIES AND THEIR 
HYBRIDS. 
Flowering in May before the leaves appear. 
All plants have ball of earth attached to the roots, 
ensuring safety in transplanting. 
M. conspicua. CHINESE WHITE MAGNOLIA- 
CHANDELIER, OR YULAN MAGNOLIA. C. 
A Chinese species of great beauty. The 
tree is of medium size, shrub-like in 
growth while young, but attains the size 
of atreein time. The flowers are large, 
pure white, very numerous, and appear 
before the leaves. $3.50. 
M. Norbertiana. NoORBERT’s MAGNOLIA. C. 
flowers reddish purple. One of the best. 
M. Soulangeana. SOULANGE’s MAGNOLIA. C. 
Tree vigorous and of regular outline; foliage showy; 
$3.00. 
In habit it closely resembles WZ. conspicua; shrubby and 
branching while young, but becoming a fair sized tree. Flowers white and purple, cup-shaped, 3 to 
5 inches in diameter. Foliage large, glossy, and massive. One of the hardiest and finest of the 
foreign Magnolias. Blooms later than cons picua. $2.00. 
M. speciosa. SHOWY-FLOWERED MAGNOLIA. C. Resembles the WZ Soulangeana in growth and foliage, 
but the flowers are a little smaller and of a lighter color, fully a week later, and remain in perfect 
condition upon the tree longer than those of any other Chinese variety. These qualities, combined 
with its hardiness, render it in our estimation one of the most valuable sorts. $2.50. 
- Lennei. LENNE’s Macnoria. C. Foliage large, flowers dark purple. A superb variety. $3.00. 
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M. stellata, syn. Halleana. HAtLi’s JAPAN Macnoiia. D. From Japan. It is of dwarf habit and 
produces its pure white, semi-double fragrant flowers in April, earlier than any other Magnolia. $3.00 
MORUS. Mulberry. Mau.perre, Ger. 
. alba.WHITE MULBERRY. B. A native of China. 
pinkish white. 5oc. 
MuRIER, /*%. 
Tree small, and of slender, rapid growth. Fruit 
- New American. B. Fruit large and of fine quality. Tree rapid growing and perfectly hardy here. It 
bears delicious fruit from middle of July until autumn. 5c. 
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M. Downing. Downine’s EVERBEARING. B. A rapid growing tree which bears fine fruit. soc. 
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. Tartarica pendula. WEEPING RussIAN MULBERRY. D. 
Forms a perfect umbrella-shaped head, 
with long, slender branches drooping to the ground, parallel to the stem; very hardy. One of the 
prettiest small weeping trees. $1.00. 
NEGUNDO. 
N. fraxinifolium. ASH-LEAVED MAPLE. Box ELDER. 
(Acer Negundo.) Nrcunpo Map te. 
NEGUNDO, /*. 
B. A native tree, maple-like in its seeds, and 
ash-like in foliage: of irregular spreading habit, and rapid growth. 50c. 
