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HEART-LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE. 
winters of England, Germany and the North of France, and flourishes and 
blooms in the open fields. The seeds, it is true, seldom ripen ; but when 
the trees become a little older, if proper attention is bestowed upon select- 
ing for them a shaded southern exposure, we may hope to see their fruit 
arrive at maturity. 
PLATE LIII. 
A leaf of the natural size. Fig. 1, A flower of half the natural size. Fig. 
2, A cone with seeds of the natural size. 
[Propagation the same as in the other species. The layered plants bloom 
sooner than seedlings, but the latter make more durable trees. It thrives 
well at Philadelphia.] 
HEART-LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE. 
Magnolia cordata. M. foliis cordatis, subtils subtomentosis ; floribus flavis. 
This species of Magnolia, which, in its general appearance and in the 
form of its fruit, very nearly resembles the preceding, has been confounded 
with it by the inhabitants of the regions in which it grows ; hence it has 
received no distinguishing name, and, to supply the defect, I have given it 
that of Heart-leaved Cucumber Tree. 
The banks of the river Savannah, in Upper Georgia, and those of the 
streams which traverse the back parts of South Carolina, are the places 
where my father and myself particularly observed this tree. The nearest 
point to the sea at which I have found it, is the plantation of Good-rest , 12 
miles from Augusta, where, in my last journey in the United States, I no- 
ticed it along the sides of Horn Creek. The Heart-leaved Cucumber Tree 
is 40 or 50. feet in height, and 12 or 15 inches in diameter. Its trunk is 
straight, and covered with a rough and deeply furrowed bark, very much 
resembling that of the Sweet Gum and of the young White.Oak. Its leaves, 
which are borne upon long petioles, are from 4 to 6 inches in length, from 
