January 17, 1839. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER . 
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ornamental early spring flowering trees in eu’tivation, and a good 
specimen loaded with flowers is a most beautiful object at a time 
when there is little else to attract out of doors. In April last year a 
a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on May 8th, and from 
these our sketch (fig. 9) was prepared. 
The flowers are pure white and fragrant, with six to nine spreading 
Fig. 9.—MAGNOLIA CONSPICUA, 
tree in Gunnersbury House gardens, Acton, flowered extremely well, 
as, in fact, it usually does, and being fully 30 feet high, it had a 
grand appearance. Some of the flowers were subsequently shown at 
petals. The tree is compact in habit, deciduous, and hardy in most 
southern districts. It produces seed freely, and has also been crossed 
with other species, the result being that many varieties and inter* 
