MAGNOLIA 
NATIVE SORTS 
. Among the flowering trees useful for street or park planting, these stand pre¬ 
eminent. Their stately forms, hardiness, grand, heavy foliage, large, showy flowers 
and fruits, form an unequaled combination. 
M. acuminata. Cucumber Tree. (Z r) Forms a fine pyramidal¬ 
shaped tree. The flowers are yellowish white, appearing in June. The fruit 
when green, resembles a small cucumber, but when ripe it is of a deep scarlet’ 
An excellent avenue or lawn tree. 
M. Fraseri. Fraser’s Magnolia. (M r) A rather slender, pyramidal 
tree, with wide-spreading branches. The foliage is a good green, and shows 
to advantage the yellowish white, sweetly scented flowers, and in autumn the 
rose-colored fruit. 
M. glauca. Sweet or Swamp Magnolia. (Ss) A beautiful tree, of fair 
size when planted in damp ground. The foliage is thick, deep green and 
glossy, and the sweet-scented white blossoms in June are lovely. 
M. grandiflora. Evergreen Magnolia. (Ss) An-evergreen species, hardy 
as far north as Philadelphia. It is a very bushy grower, and the white flowers 
show well against the thick, glossy dark green foliage. 
M. macrophylla. Great-leaved Magnolia. (M v) A superb species, 
of medium height and rounded growth. The leaves are of immense size, often 
two feet in length. The flowers are also very large, sometimes io or 12 
inches in diameter. Its tropical appearance, a character all possess to more or 
less extent, its large leaves, flowers and scarlet fruit make it most effective. 
VVc have two very fine specimens over 40 feet in height on our grounds. 
M. tripetala. UmbrellaTree. (Mr) An open-headed tree, with spreading 
branches and very large leaves. The flowers in June vary from 4 to 8 inches 
across, and the oblong fruit is rose-colored. 
CHINESE SPECIES AND THEIR HYBRIDS 
These garden sorts flower early ; even before the leaves appear their gorgeous 
masses of colored bloom are at their best, and their fragrance is as delicious as their 
grand .display of color is pleasing. They transplant best in the spring. 
M Alexandriana. (Hybrid.) Alexander’s Magnolia. (S vi) A form 
closely resembling! M. Soulangeana * almost identical in color of flowers, but 
blooms a few days earlier. 
M conspicua. Chinese White Magnolia. (S s) A highly prized spe- 
cies on account of its large white flowers, which open about the middle of 
April, bhrub-like growth when young, but attains the size of a tree in time.,’ 
M. Kobus. Thurber’s Japanese Magnolia. (Sin) A tree of bushy 
growth and pyramidal form, densely branched. The flowers of creamy yellow 
appear early in May. A desirable variety. 
M ' Winv n , Ci ! i (Hybnd « Anne’s Magnolia. (Sm) A strong grower; 
foliage dark green; flowers dark rose-colored, cup-shaped, opening in May. 
One^ortrbesV " ^ Wil1 pr ° duCC a few flowers the late summer. 
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