. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Magnoliac'ecB—Magnolia. 25 a ferruginous tomentum beneath. The fully expanded flowers are from 6 to 8 inches in diameter, almost pure white, and de- liciously odoriferous. There are many varieties of this desirable tree in cultivation, differing in the form and size of the leaves and flowers and the season of flowering. The Exmouth variety, M. gv. Oxoni
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Magnoliac'ecB—Magnolia. 25 a ferruginous tomentum beneath. The fully expanded flowers are from 6 to 8 inches in diameter, almost pure white, and de- liciously odoriferous. There are many varieties of this desirable tree in cultivation, differing in the form and size of the leaves and flowers and the season of flowering. The Exmouth variety, M. gv. Oxoniensis, is one of the best. Unfortunately it will not bear more than 20 degrees (Fahrenheit) of frost without injury. It is a native of North America, flowering from June to August. 2. M. put'phrea, syn. M. discolor.—A small deciduous shrub with large obovate dark green leaves and large tulip-shaped flowers with 6 petals purple on the outside and white within. A native of Japan, which produces its fragrant flowers very freely in the month of April. There is a reputed variety of this called ilf. Lennei, of larger stature, having larger flowers with more rounded petals, and said to be hardier; but it does not appear to be much known in this country. 3. M. Laurel Magnolia.— with small ever- green oval or oblong glabrous leaves, light green above and glaucous below. Flowers white, fragrant, from 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Appearing in Summer. This is a very hardy species, though less showy than some others. M. longifdlio., Gordoniana, latifdlia, etc., are forms of this species. North America. 4. M. conspicua, syn, M. Yukhi (fig. 22).—For the size and beauty of its flowers this shrub ranks next to M. grandifiora; but the white flowers, although very abundant, are not so effec- tive, on account of their being produced in early Spring before the appearance of the leaves. There are double-flowered varieties, and one, called Soulangeana, having the petals tinged w
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