Mr. Loudon, in the 2nd vol. of his very useful 
Magazine, mentions having seen a tree of Magnolia 
conspicua, in the Kensington nursery, covered, a£ 
he says, with eleven hundred tulip-like blossoms, 
white as snow, and highly odoriferous. He considers 
it one of the finest objects in the vegetable creation, 
and observes, that no person who has the slightest 
pretensions to a love of plants, and a garden, ought 
to be without it. 
It is a deciduous tree, and equally adapted for 
training against a wall, or planting as a standard ; 
though it must be admitted, that under the latter cir- 
cumstances, in our boisterous and uncertain months 
of March and April, its flowers have less chance of 
appearing in their fullest state of excellence; par- 
ticularly as they are produced before the tree has per- 
fected its foliage. As it flowers freely, whilst a small 
tree, and its wood young, it might be kept to the 
size that is most desirable, either trained on a wall 
six feet square, or one of thirty. 
In all cases, where there is a choice of situation, 
a south, or south-east aspect should be preferred, 
and it will also be advisable to take the benefit of 
shelter from a northernly exposure, where such ad- 
vantage offers itself. 
A mixture of peat and loam, on a rather moist 
sub-soil, will be very suitable to our present subject; 
and the most ready method of increase is by layers. 
If these are made early in the spring, after the me- 
thod of carnation layers, they will be fit for removal 
in eighteen months. They should have protection 
from severe frosts, during the two or three first win- 
ters of their growth. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 330. 
