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Oriental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
fere with tlie usual spring crop. The flower buds are formed throughout 
the summer and autumn in great multitudes and unfold in the early spring 
before the fol iage. No foliage whatever is visible when the spring crop 
is in bloom. 
The color range is from pure white to white slightly tinted pink, pink, 
rose, and a deep color that could be called red, as well as a brownish-purple 
and a rich darker purple that could be rated as black, a very deep purple. 
If it is desirable to hasten the growth of Magnolias after they become 
well established, remove six inches of the top soil for an area of 6 feet 
around the tree to a depth of six to eight inches, cover the area with cow 
manure or other rich fertilizer; cover this fertilizer or manure with soil, then 
water thoroughly. Under such circumstances the growth from near the base 
will be six to eight feet high in one season. Young trees from three to eight 
feet high require a circle three to four feet in diameter. 
Magnolias transplanted with a soil ball need a tremendous lot of water¬ 
ing the first season after transplanting, no matter how ample the rainfall 
seems to be, as they have all their roots confined within this soil ball for 
at least the first year, if not the second. The production of the hrst year’s 
crop of flowers, not to mention the foliage, exhausts all the moisture in the 
ball in three warm days. When there is a failure in transplanting Magnolia 
specimen trees, it is solely caused by the absence of moisture. After two 
years the roots will have entered the surrounding area and the tree can 
take care of itself, without irrigation. 
We o ffer the follov/ing varieties as a very good assortment: 
M. Alba Superba is very light pink, fragrant, a vigorous grower. Not 
infrequently this variety produces snow-white flowers, as the name would 
indicate. Its habit, vigor and general appearance similar to Soulangeana. 
M. Alexandrina is a somewhat slower and stockier grower than Soulan¬ 
geana. The flowers are approximately ten to fourteen days later than 
Soulangeana, the color is richer and deeper. While likely enough Alexan¬ 
drina will eventually attain as great a height as Soulangeana, which is 
approximately twenty feet, there is no doubt it will be quite old before 
that time. 
M. Grandiflora (Southern Magnolia) the fragrant Magnolia of the 
South, is hardy in Pennsylvania, at least within one hundred miles from 
Philadelphia, but you must have the hardy type. In the South it is not 
generally realized that there are many types of these Magnolias. The ones 
with the light green, soft, flexible foliage are hardy only as far North as 
Wash ington, perhaps Wilmington. In our vicinity they survive the winters, 
but are frequently injured. Wh ereas. Magnolia Grandiflora with the dark 
