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sends up several sprouts, making the plant rather a bush than a 
tree. Its flowers are very fragrant, and as a tree to group with 
mountain ash on the outskirts of pines, if is one of the most 
effective. Of the Chinese varieties, the magnolia conspicua and 
soulangeana are the most generally known ; both are good ; but 
if we were to select one, it would be the soulangeana , because it is 
a more rapid grower, and its flowers appear to escape injury from 
late spring frosts better than the conspicua. Both are perfectly 
hardy, form spreading, round-headed trees of middle size, and 
should always be placed where they will form the foreground 
of a group of evergreens, on account of their flowers being pro- 
duced early in spring or before the growth of their leaves. 
There is a variety described as Norbertiana , with habit and 
growth of the conspicua, but having flowers of a dark purplish 
color and very fragrant. And another is described as Lenne , 
with flowers like the soulangeana, but of more than twice their 
size. 
Magnolia purpurea and gracilis are both shrubs, and will be 
noticed in their place, we here remarking that their planting 
and arrangement as undergrowths or foregrounds to the con- 
spicua and soulangeana are productive of a happy effect. 
Mulberry — Morus . — Although not a tree of the highest 
beauty, yet the native mulberry is not inelegant ; and wherever 
it can be grown successfully, the great value of its fruit adds 
much to recommend its adoption in forming groups of deciduous 
trees, as it harmonizes well with the linden, catalpa, and some 
others of round heads and broad foliage. In some sections, 
however, of our Northern States, the trees are tender; and 
although not often killed entirely, they are frequently injured 
so much in the branches as to greatly impair their regularity 
and beauty. The variety now well known as “ Downing’s Ever- 
bearing,” raised from seed some years ago by Charles Downing, 
Newburg, N. Y., is as hardy as any; and as its fruit is large and 
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