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ripened in this country. The plants come up the first year, and, 

 in the fall of the same year, may be planted out where they are 

 to stand ; though it is certainly better to give them one year in 

 the nursery, cutting them down to within a couple or three inches 

 of the ground every time you transplant. Their only enemies are 

 hares and rabits, and, if planted out young in a place where these 

 vermin abound, expect not to preserve your locust trees. 



378. LOBLOLLY BAY. — Lat. Gordonia Lasyantkus. This is 

 an evergreen which rises to the height of fifty or sixty feet in Ameri- 

 ca, bearing a white flower, in size and shape very much like that of 

 the dwarf or round tulip. I have never seen one of them in Eng- 

 land, and I suppose that it is about as tender as the Magnolia 

 Grandiflora, as it comes from the southern States of America. 



379. MAGNOLIA.— There are seven sorts of Magnolias, all 

 of which come from North America. They are called, first. The 

 Magnolia Grandiflora, some of which have white and some pur- 

 plish flowers. It grows in the southern States of North America 

 to the common height of our elms. It is rather too tender for 

 exposed situations in England, and is generally placed against a 

 house or a high wall facing the south. I have, however, seen 

 them standard trees, and of considerable height. Its flowers aie 

 magnificent, indeed. They are shaped somewhat like the flower 

 of the tulip, and burst open like the tulip. The petals are 

 from three to four inches long, and the flower sometimes, 

 when quite open, forms a circumference approaching to a foot. 

 From the centre of the petals there arises a flower-pod some- 

 what in the shape of a pine-apple, which opens when the seed 

 is nearly ripe, and the seeds come out from the sides of this 

 seed-pod and hang suspended from it by a little sort of 

 string. This magnolia is an evergreen, and has long, large, 

 and beautiful leaves. All magnolias may be raised from the 

 seed ; but that seed must be brought from the country of which 

 the tree is a native. The seed comes up the first year in the 

 natural ground, but the seedlings must be carefully protected 

 during the winter for a year or two. — Second, Magnolia tripe- 

 tella, which the Americans call umbrella-tree. This tree is 

 hardy, and will grow as a standard in any tolerable situation in 

 England. The leaves of this tree are some of the largest and 

 finest in the world. I have some now, each of which is about 

 twenty-one inches long, and nine inches wide in the middle. The 



