82 LARGE FLOWERED MAGNOLIA. 
abundant in his tour in Florida, its summit forms a per- 
fect cone, rising from a straight clear trunk, resembling 
a beautiful column, and, from its dark foliage “silvered 
over with milk-white flowers,” it is seen at a great dis- 
tance. The succession of flowers is also long conti- 
nued, in favourable situations from May to August. 
Though confined very much to the neighbourhood of 
the sea-coast, it extends westward in Georgia as far as 
Milledgeville; and I met with it in Alabama, on the banks 
of Utchee creek, about 12 miles from Columbus in 
Georgia, and afterwards in other parts of that State 
down to West Florida. It is known to the Creeks by 
the native name of Toola. 
In the new edition of Duhamel, we have the following 
account of its introduction into France. There is at 
Maillardiere, about five miles from Nantes, a fine Mag- 
nolia, which was brought from the banks of the Missis- 
sippi, in 1732, and planted in a poor soil. It grew there 
neglected for more than 30 years, till M. Bonami, a phy- 
sician of Nantes and professor of botany there, recog- 
nised this beautiful tree to be the Magnolia grandiflora; 
and at the meeting of the States of Bretagne in Septem- 
ber, 1760, in Nantes, he presented to the Princess of 
Rohan-Chabet, a fine branch of this Magnolia in flower, 
which became a subject of conversation and interest to 
all assembled. Louis XV. possessed several small 
plants of this species in his garden at the Petit Trianon, 
but they did not thrive; and, having heard of a Magno- 
lia 35 to 40 feet high, which every year was covered with 
fine flowers of a delicious perfume, he sent two of his 
gardeners to ascertain if it was possible to transport 
this tree to Versailles; and, above all, should they do 
so, if it would be certain to grow. They saw the tree, 
and, being of opinion that it would not survive removal, 
it was suffered to remain in its place. It was at that 
