Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 119 
Magnolia— (MAGNOLIA) or Laurel-leaved 
Tulip Tree, of the 
Clafs and Order 
Polyandria Polygynia, 
Many Males, Many Females ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having many 
Stamina, or Male Fructifications, and many Pijtillnms, 
• or Females. 
THE Magnolia comprifes fuperbly-beautiful 
ever-green trees, and deciduous kinds, all flowering 
very ornamentally, growing fifteen to twenty or thirty 
feet high, or more, in the different fpecies, decorated 
with mod elegantly large, and middling, oblong-fpear- 
fhape, and ovate-fimple leaves; and large, ornamental, 
ennepetalous, or nine-petalled, white flowers, impart¬ 
ing an agreeable fragrance; having three-leaved cups, 
a corolla of nine large, oblong, concave petals, nu¬ 
merous damina, and many germens and flyles; fuc- 
cceded by large, conic heads, of roundiih-cluftered 
capfules, furnilhed with roundifh, baccated, or berried 
feeds, which, being difcharged from the capfules, are 
fufpended by flcnder threads; feldom ripening in per¬ 
fection in England, but are obtained plentifully from 
North America, the place of their native growth, by 
the leedfmen; and by which the trees are propagated ; 
alfo by layers and cuttings of the young fhoots; all 
principally in the fpring. 
The Species of MAGNOLIA are, 
I. Mao-Nolia grandiflora, Grand-flowered Ever¬ 
green Magnolia, or Laurel-leaved Tulip Tree. 
A fuperb, ever-green tree, with an upright dem, 
and large, branchy head, growing twenty to thirty, or 
forty feet high, or more—the leaves {mofl large, light- 
green, Jhining) oblong, fpear-lhane, perennial, or ever¬ 
green; and large, white flowers, terminating the ends 
of the branches: June and July.—Native of Florida, 
Carolina, and other parts of America, {Loamy, or 
any tolerable foil, and warm, dry fituation.) 
Varieties.’— Broad-leaved Ever-green Magnolia. 
Narrow-leaved Ever-green Magnolia. 
Ferruginous, Ever-green Magnolia; 
wl h leaves irony, coloured Under¬ 
neath. 
z. Mag nolia acuminata, Acnminated-leaved, Deci¬ 
duous Magnolia. 
A middling, d ciduous tree, growing twenty feet 
high, or more—the leaves {moderately large, light - 
green) ovate-oblong, acuminated, or fharp-pointea, 
and deciduous; and large, blueifh, or white flowers.— 
Native of Pennfylvania, in North America (Light, 
loamy, or ary tolerable foil, and fheltered Jit nation.) 
3. Magnolia tripet ala. Tri-dependent petalled Mag¬ 
nolia, or Umbrella Tree. 
A middling, deciduous tree, growing twenty feet 
high, or more—the leaves {mofl large , light-green) 
fpear-fhape, difpofed in rays, expanding like an um¬ 
brella ; and large white flowers, having the three ex¬ 
terior petals dependent.—Native of Carolina, and fome 
parts of Virginia. {Any tolerable foil and fheltered 
fituation.) 
4. Magnolia glauca. Glaucous-leaved, fmaller De¬ 
ciduous Magnolia. 
A fmall, deciduous tree, growing ten or twelve feet 
high—the leaves {middling) ovate-oblong, glaucous, 
or fea-green, whitilh on the under fide.—Native of 
Virginia and Pennfylvania. {Any common foil and 
warm fituation.) 
Variety. —Double-flowered. Glaucous Magnolia. 
All thefe fpecies of Magnolia are mofl: defirable, or¬ 
namental trees, for adorning the pleafure-ground; and 
have particular merit to aflemble in curious collections 
of trees and flirubs, in principal fhrubberies, in the 
mofl: confpicuous fituations; the Magnolia grandi¬ 
flora, in particular, being a magnificent, ever-greert 
tree of Angular grandeur, and one of the mofl beau¬ 
tiful of the ever-green tribe ; claims univerfal atten¬ 
tion, to plant for ornament, appearing delightful in 
its very large, fhining foliage, in conftant verdure th* 
year round: the other three fpecies being deciduous, are 
in foliage only in fummer; but efleCl a confpicuous va¬ 
riety in that feafon; and in all the forts, when ad¬ 
vanced of fome confiderable growth, they: produce 
their beautiful, large flowers, at the ends of the 
branches; fo that, in the whole, thefe trees are of 
great eftiination for ornamental planting, in the mofl 
confpicuous fhrubbery clumps, &c. or the Ever-green 
Magnolia, to plant fingly on plats, lawns, and prin¬ 
cipal borders; generally difpofing ail the forts in fome 
warm, defended compartments; and the ever-green 
kind, in particular, Ihould be defended from frofl with 
mats. 
They are all raifed from feed, layers, and cuttings, 
as hereafter explained; and when the plants are two 
or three feet high, are of proper fize for tranfplanting 
into fluubberies, or other parts of the plcafure-groundl 
&c. 
But 
