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The Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn. 
MAGNOLIA SOULANGEANA. 
6arly flowering JVIagnolias. 
N O more highly ornamental class of trees and shrubs exist than the Magnolia family. 
This is especially true of those known as the Asiatic species, which bloom before the 
leaves appear in the spring. Everyone is familiar with the large cup-shaped pink 
and white fragrant blooms which suddenly envelop the plant and fill the air with a delicate 
fragrance before we are hardly aware that spring has really arrived. There are a number 
of species and varieties varying in color, form, and time of blooming, from the bush-like 
Stellata with its very white and many-petaled bloom, to the more sedate and stately Lennei, 
blooming a month later, producing great cup-shaped, deep rosy red flowers. Our stock 
of the following kinds is very fine and most of them will take up and transplant with large 
balls of earth. When handled in this way we believe practically no loss should result. 
STELLATA OR HALLEANA, sometimes known as the Star-Magnolia. It is a shrub 
seldom reaching a height of fifteen feet. Plants but a foot high will often bloom profusely. 
It is the first strictly hardy magnolia to bloom in the spring and its dainty but showy pure 
white flowers of delicate fragrance are always welcome. 
For prices see page 11. 
LENNEI. The latest of the class to bloom and the flowers are the largest and of a deep 
rose red on the outside of the petal, inside a rosy white. This is one of the most effective 
°t the magnolias and has the additional value of blooming at intervals throughout the sum¬ 
mer. 
For prices see page 10. 
SPECIOSA. Much lighter in color and some larger than Soulangeana, blooms at about 
the same time. 
For prices see page 10. 
‘OULANGEANA. This is the very well-known and more common pink magnolia, 
^hybrid garden variety and very desirable. The pink cup-shaped flowers are very 
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other Magnolias see page 10. 
The plants arrived safely and I am more than pleased with them and 
flighted with the Iris you so kindly sent me.” 
I received the Hardy Plants sent me , in splendid order, and / was 
delighted with them ” 
All the plants I received from you did finely and my gat den was o 
gieat pleasure to me this spring” 
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