. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 371 Fig. 114. The Umbrella Magnolia. M. tripetela.~^K species that seems always in doub
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 371 Fig. 114. The Umbrella Magnolia. M. tripetela.~^K species that seems always in doubt whether to be a shrub or a tree. Fig. 114 shows, not its most common, but its best form, at about ten years of age. It grows rapidly to a huge bush or small tree thirty feet in height. If allowed to send up shoots at will, it is pretty sure to have half a dozen rival stems, and then it is an ungainly great- leaved, and great-blossomed bush. By using care, however, in the selection of a stocky low tree from the nursery, encouraging it to branch low, and not allowing any suckers to spring from near the ground, it can be forced to make the pretty tree-form shown in our cut, though this is not as low-branched as it is desirable to make them. The leaves are of great size, often from eighteen inches to two feet long on young trees, and seven or eight inches broad, oval, and pointed at both ends. They are disposed to grow in tufts at the extremi- ties of the limbs, so â that the interior branches are bare. This peculiarity sug- gested the name of Umbrella Magnolia ; but the general form of the tree is such as to make the title utterly inappropriate ; but it is now too well established to change. In the latitude of New York this tree is generally in' bloom from May to July, and isolated blossoms occasionally appear throughout the season; the flowers are white, from six to eight inches in diameter, cup-shaped, and have an unpleasant odor. The fruit is conical, five or six inches long
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