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Magnolia Soxilangeana. 
Where the Chinese magnolias thrive, as they do or north side of a bnilding. It will make several days 
generally throughout the INIiddle States, they do more difference in the time of How'ering, and this several 
to herald the advance of spring than any other tree or days may save it. What I mean is well illustrated in 
shrub. There are lots of other 
trees and shrubs we could not part 
with, flowering at the same season, 
but there is no family contributing 
more specimens of conspicuous 
beauty than that of the magnolia. 
Of the many sorts of this de- 
scription, the first of all to flower is 
the M. stellata, and this is a little 
gem. I say little, because it seems 
to be the smallest grown of all, 
growing slowly and never making 
but a large bush under very many 
years. The flowers are pink in the 
bud, white when expanded, semi- 
double and sweet scented, and they 
expand fully a week or more in ad- 
vance of the conspicua, which is the' 
next to appear. This, the con- 
spicua, is the well-known Chinese 
white, a grand thing and most or- 
namental as a small tree. This pre- 
cedes the Soulangeana by but two 
or three days ; sometimes not at all, 
but when side by side it does. Soul- 
angeana is the one illustrated, and it 
is, I think, the most useful of all. 
The flowers are pink in the bud, 
the petals showing white inside 
when unfolded. Long before the 
flowers open it is an object of 
beauty, as the pink in the buds is 
prominent and pleasing. And look 
at the thousand and more flower 
buds on this tree 1 When in flower 
it was an object of so much beauty that 
persons passing by the residence could but stop 
to take in its beauty. This and others of these 
early flowering magnolias are often caught by 
late frosts. The flowers are eager to expand, soon re- 
sponding to the sun’s warmth. Sometimes when just 
fairly open a cold night will come, with a degree or 
two of freezing, when away go the flowers. For this 
reason where there is a choice of situation plant this 
magnolia where it will be in the shade, say on the east 
MAGNOLIA SOULANGEANA. 
the picture itself. On the right-hand side of the tree 
it will be noticed that the flowers are not nearly as far 
advanced as the others. A dwelling shades them, 
keeping away the sun’s rays after noon, and it has 
made the flowers on that side a week later than the 
others. 
The tree is about twenty-five feet high, and is 
standing on the lawn of Thomas Doan, Germantown, 
Pa., by whose kind permission a photograph was 
secured. Joseph Meehan. 
Red-Berried Tartarian Honey’sticRle 
The common bush, or Tartarian, honeysuckle, as it 
is commonly called, it not only very ornamental when 
in flower, but at this season of the year it is a sight to 
see in the way of an ornamental berried bush. Loni- 
cera tartarica is the name it goes under. 
The Tartarian honeysuckle, in all its varieties, is 
readily propagated from hard wood cuttings, made in 
winter, and set out in spring, as well as by soft wood 
cuttings, made now and rooted in a greenhouse. — 
Joseph Meehan in the Florists’ Exchange. 
