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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
We regret that this tree is too tender to bear the open air 
north of Philadelphia, as it is one of the choicest evergreens. 
At the nurseries of the Messrs. Landreth, and at the Bartram 
Botanic Garden of Col. Carr, near that city, some good 
specimens of this Magnolia and its varieties are growing 
thriftily ; but in the State of New- York, and at the east, it 
can only be considered a green-house plant. 
The Cucumber Magnolia, (C. accuminata ,) (so called 
from the appearance of the young fruit, which is not unlike 
a green cucumber,) takes the same place in the north, in 
point of majesty and elevation, that the Big Laurel occupies 
in the south. Its northern limit is Lake Erie ; and it 
abounds along the whole range of the Alleghanies to the 
southward, in rich mountain acclivities, and moist sheltered 
valleys. There it often measures three or four feet in 
diameter, and eighty in height. The leaves, which are 
deciduous, like those of all the Magnolias except the M. 
grandijiora , are also about six inches long, and four 
broad, accumulate at the point, of a bluish green on the 
upper surface. The flowers are six inches in diameter, of a 
pale yellow, much like those of the Tulip tree, and slightly 
fragrant. The fruit is about three inches long, and cylin- 
drical in shape. Most of the inhabitants of the country 
bordering on the Alleghanies, says Michaux, gather these 
cones about midsummer, when they are half ripe, and steep 
them in whiskey ; the liquor produced, they take as an 
antidote against the fevers prevalent in those districts. 
The Umbrella Magnolia, (M. tripetala,) though found 
sometimes in the northwest of New- York, is rare there, and 
abounds most in the south and west. It is a smaller tree 
than the preceding kinds, rarely growing more than thirty 
feet high. The leaves on the terminal shoots, are disposed 
