MAGNO LIA SOULANGIA'NA. 
soulange’s magnolia. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. POLAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
MAGNOLIACE^. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Raised 
Origin. 
5 feet 
May, June. 
Shrub. 
in 1826. 
No. 913. 
Peter Magnol was a French botanist of some 
note in the seventeenth century. 
This hybrid Magnolia was raised near Paris, in 
the garden of the Chevalier Soulange-Bodin, after 
whom it is named. It was raised from seeds of 
Magnolia conspicua, and there would perhaps be 
but little hesitation in pronouncing its other parent 
to be purpurea; this, however, is said not to be the 
fact, but that it was tomentosa. 
Our drawing was made from a small standard 
plant growing in an exposed situation, where its 
flowers did not expand so freely as against a wall. 
But, as is our rule, it was represented as nature 
gave it; not magnified, or emblazoned agreeably 
to the imagination of the artist or his directors. 
This Magnolia forms a more compact shrub, as 
a standard, than most others of the genus ; and it 
flourishes in any light loamy soil. It is, however, 
much increased in beauty of lowering when trained 
to a wall of good aspect. Here the flowers grow 
to a larger size, and they expand more completely, 
exposing fully their green spiked carpels, sur- 
rounded by their numerous linear anthers. 
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