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base, where they are rounded into lobes. The flowers are 
not so fine as those of the preceding kinds, but still are 
handsome, pale greenish white, and about four inches in 
diameter. 
Besides these, there is a smaller American Magnolia, 
which is the only sort that in the middle or eastern 
sections of the Union grows within 150 miles of the sea- 
shore. This is the Magnolia of the swamps of New 
Jersey and the South (M. glauca), of which so many 
fragrant and beautiful bouquets are gathered in the season 
of its inflorescence, brought to New York and Philadel- 
phia, and exposed for sale in the markets. It is rather a 
large bush, than a tree ; with shining, green, laurel-like 
leaves, four or five inches long, somewhat mealy or 
glaucous beneath. The blossoms, about three inches 
broad, are snowy white, and so fragrant that where they 
abound in the swamps, their perfume is often perceptible 
for the distance of a quarter of a mile. 
The foreign sorts introduced into our gardens from 
China, are the Chinese purple ( M . purpurea ), which 
produces an abundance of large delicate purple blossoms 
early in the season ; the Yulan or Chinese White Magno- 
lia (M. conspicua), a most abundant bloomer, bearing 
beautiful white, fragrant flowers in April, before the leaves 
appear ; and Soulange's Magnolia (M. Soulangiana), a 
hybrid between the two foregoing, with large flowers 
delicately tinted with white and purple. These succeed 
well in sheltered situations, in our pleasure-grounds, and 
add greatly to their beauty early in the season. Grafted 
on the cucumber tree, they form large and vigorous trees 
of great beauty. 
The Magnolia, in order to thrive well, requires a deep, 
