. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. "X TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. and pulK'scent. Fhnvers ; three to six inches in diameter; terminal ; solitary. Calyx: rctlcxed. Corolla: pale greenish yellow; fragrant, with six large obo- vate, narrow pointed ])etais. Fruit: large; ovate ; glabrous; Ijccoming rose coloured when ripe, i^eeds: orange-red and hanging when released from the pods by fine white filaments. When we wander ihiough a strip of woodland wliere the soil is rich and the atmosphere feels as though it were a shroud of humid vapour, we may look about a
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. "X TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. and pulK'scent. Fhnvers ; three to six inches in diameter; terminal ; solitary. Calyx: rctlcxed. Corolla: pale greenish yellow; fragrant, with six large obo- vate, narrow pointed ])etais. Fruit: large; ovate ; glabrous; Ijccoming rose coloured when ripe, i^eeds: orange-red and hanging when released from the pods by fine white filaments. When we wander ihiough a strip of woodland wliere the soil is rich and the atmosphere feels as though it were a shroud of humid vapour, we may look about among the white ash, the white oak and the sugar maples for the fragrant bloom of Mag- nolia acuminata. Ikit it is generally a rare find, and it is not sufficiently common to be much associated with the forests. Its growth is most luxurious in the valleys at the bases of the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. At all seasons of the year it is a notable tree, although it can not be com- pared to the great-flowered magnolia, which has, however, attained so leading a place in beauty's ranks that it is per- haps inijust to use it as a standard for others. The resemblance of the tree's fruit when green to a small cucumber is responsi- ble for its English name. Magnolia acuminata has been used with much success as a stock on which to graft Magnolia Vir- ginia and the magnolias of Eastern Asia. They then grow more freely than when left entirely dependent upon themselves. The wood of the tree has been used in cabinet work ; but gen- erally speaking that of the whole genus, excepting Magnolia fa'tida, is too soft and spongy to be of any great value, M. cordata, yellow cucumber tree, is a variety of this species which is widely cultivated. It is hardy as far northward as Boston. A most beautiful effect is produced by it when its lemon-coloured flowers are pushing out of the buds. SMOOTH AZALEA. TREE AZALEA. {Plate LXXV.) Azalea arboriscens. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM H
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