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flowers much earlier and more abundantly than the original 
sort. 
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. acuminata), (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, 
grandijlora, are also about six inches long and four broad, 
acuminate 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 
cylindrical 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 ail antidote against the fevers prevalent in those 
districts 
The Umbrella Magnolia ( M . tripetala), though found 
