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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
Unless grafted or budded on the acuminata, it is only a dwarf, 
growing from six to twenty feet liigli — more like a bush than a 
tree. In moist, cool situations it often flowers all the season, 
June to September; but in open, exposed, sunny locations it 
flowers but once, in spring. The fragrance of its flowers, 
together with the rich, glossy, pale-green foliage and young 
shoots, form for it a shrub tree that were it to be now newly 
introduced, would cause an excitement rarely known in the 
arboricultural world. There are a number of sub-varieties, as 
Fig. 13.— Magnolia Conspicua. 
longifolia , Gordoniana , Tfiompsoniana , etc., better, because larger 
in foliage, and perhaps a little stronger in growth; but their 
hardihood in all situations remains yet to be tested. 
Magnolia tripetela , called the umbrella tree, when grown 
north of Philadelphia, seldom acquires much size ; and although 
perfectly hardy where it has a season warm enough to ripen its 
wood, yet the main stem often dies when it has acquired a 
height of twelve to fifteen feet and a size of four to six inches 
diameter ; the crown and root, however, do not die, but the root 
