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THE MANUAL OF GARDENING. 
Magnolia oboyata. — The Purple Magnolia is the only hardy 
species, which may properly be called a shrub. The following 
extract is from the Floral Magazine : 
“ Although the present species of this attractive genus has 
become known to the scientific, and numerous amateur cultivators 
of plants, yet its fine qualities demand a more general introduc- 
tion, and we trust the graphic drawing which accompanies thi3 
notice, will tend to its extension to the gardens of the more re- 
mote sections of our widely extended territory, in almost every 
portion of which, the presumption is, it will bloom with freedom — 
certain are we, that it bears uninjured an intensity of cold, and 
in this latitude flowers freely among the earlier vegetables that 
display their inflorescence in the spring. In April, when this 
drawing was executed, some hundreds of flowers adorned our 
parent plant, which had been exposed the preceding, and many 
former winters, to all the vicissitudes of our restless climate; 
and, from the profusion of buds then unexpanded, it would remain 
many weeks in bloom; indeed, it is not unusual for a luxuriant 
specimen, to continue partially in flower, from early in the spring 
to the close of autumn. 
Its native soil is China, where it probably attains a greater 
elevation than in this country. Here it is but a shrub, though 
perhaps from that circumstance not the less valuable, as it admits 
of its insertion in gardens of limited extent, or it may be kept in 
pots, to ornament the parlour or the green-house. It is highly 
probable that it would thrive enarched upon the acuminata or 
some other fast-growing species, and in that form, trees might be 
procured, possessing all the character and beauty of the shrub. 
A light loamy soil, well cultivated, and enriched, is congenial to 
it : much water is not essential, either to this or many other spe- 
cies of Magnolia, as the inexperienced generally suppose, from 
the fact of the more common kind, the glauca, growing in 
swampy land. It is readily increased by layers, or by suckers, 
which spring up in considerable number. 
For other Magnolias, see page 63. 
Philadelphus, Mock Orange. — The two species most worthy 
of notice, are the inodor us, or scentless; producing the inflores- 
cence in a wreath-like form, and the grandijlorus, with large 
flowers, and prominent yellow anthera. They are robust, and 
almost any situation and soil will suit them. The P. Coronarius 
or common Syringa, is very much esteemed, on account of the 
scent of its white flowers, which Mason calls — 
“ The sweet Syringa, yielding but in scent 
To the rich orange.” 
The leaves have very much the smell of fresh cucumbers, and 
