GENERAL CATALOGUE. 
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AMERICAN SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
Magnolia acuminata. Cucumber Magnolia. A. A beautiAil, pyramidal growing tree, attaining from GO to 90 feet in 
height. Lea\es 6 to 9 inches long, and bluish green; flowers yellow, tinted with bluish purple; fruit, when 
green, resembling a cucumber; hence the name. June. 50c 
M. macrophylla. Great-leaved Magnolia. B. A superb species, oif medium size. Leaves two feet in length, 
pubescent and white beneath. Flowers white, of immense size; when fully blown, 8 to 30 inches in diameter, 
appearing in June. A rare tropical looking tree. $2.00. 
M. tripetela. I mbrella Tree. B. A hardy, medium-sized tree, with immense leaves, and large, white flowers, 1 to 6 
inches in diameter, appearing in June. $1.00. 
CHINESE SPECIES AND THEIR HYBRIDS. 
(Flowering in May before the leaves appear.) 
We now grow our Chinese Magnolias in pots and 
ship with ball of earth attached, which ensures suc¬ 
cessful transplanting. 
Magnolia conspicua. Chinese White Magnolia. 
Chandelier, or Yulan Magnolia. C. A 
Chinese species of great beauty. The tree 
is of medium size, shrub-like in growth 
while young, but attains the size of a tree 
in time. The flowers are large, pure white, 
very numerous, and appear before the 
leaves. $1.50. 
M. Kobus. Thurber’s Japan Magnolia. B. A 
tree of medium size, bushy growth ; flowers 
blush white and fragrant. $1.00. 
M. Norbertlana. Norberts Magnolia. C. A 
hybrid between M. consjnctta and M. oboi'- 
ata. Tree vigorous and of regular outline; 
foliage showy; flowers reddish purple. One 
of the best. $2.00. 
M. Soulangeana. Soulange’s Magnolia. C. In 
habit it closely resembles M. conspicua: 
shrubby and branching while young, but 
becoming a fair-sized tree. Flowers white 
and purple, cup-shaped, and 3 to 5 inches 
in diameter. Foliage large, glossy and 
massive. One of the hardiest and finest of 
the foreign Magnolias. Blooms iater than 
conspicua. $1.50 
M. speciosa. Showy flowered Magnolia. C. 
Resembles the M. Soulangeana in growth 
and foliage, but the flowers are a little 
smaller and of a lighter color, fully a week 
later, and remain in perfect condition upon 
the tree longer than those of any other 
Chinese variety. These qualities combined 
with its hardiness, render it : in our estima¬ 
tion, one oi lhe most valuable sorts. $1 50. 
M. Lennei. Lenne's Magnolia. C. A seedling 
of if. purpurea. Foliage large, flowers dark 
purple. A superb variety. $2.00. 
M. stellata, syn. Halleana. Hall's Japan Mag¬ 
nolia. D. Introduced by I)r. Hall from 
Japan. It is of dwarf habit and produces its 
pure white semi-double fragrant flowers in 
April, earlier than any other Magnolia. $2.00. 
MOKUS. Mulberry. Maulbeere, Ger. Murier, Fr. 
M. alba. White Mulberry. B. A native of China. Tree small, and of slender rapid growth. Fruit pinkish white. 
50c. 
M. Downing. Downing’s Everbearing. B. A rapid growing tree, which bears fine fruit. 50c. 
M. New American. B. Fruit large and of fine quality. Tree rapid growing and perfectly hardy here. It bears 
delicious fruit from middle of July until autumn. 50c. 
M. Tartarica pendula. Weeping Russian Mulberry. D. Forms a perfect umbrella-shaped head, with long, slender 
branches drooping to the ground, parallel to the stem; very hardy. One of the prettiest small weeping trees. 
See cut. $1.00. 
