greenhouse one, and now it is found to suffer very little from our winters in general, in the open ground, but I should recommend it to be planted on rather a dry loamy soil, and under the shelter of other trees and shrubs. It seems to me a mistaken notion, that because a tree or shrub will exist in our climate through the winter, it should be exclusively treated as quite hardy. Many plants which do survive that season, are yet so injured, that it requires the whole of the following summer to recover their appearance and enable them to encounter the same hardships again; and such plants are only ornamental when they have had to encounter a mild winter, and their foliage and buds have remained uninjured.

HAB. Western Florida, near the Mississippi. H. Fl. spring.The wood and leaves are highly fragrant.

TRIBE II. MAGNOLIEE. Magnolia Tribe. Carpels arranged upon a spiked axis. Leaves without pellucid dots.—In this division we have the East Indian Genus Michelia, cultivated by the natives on account of the delicious fragrance of its blossoms, and the Magnolias and the Tulip-Tree, remarkable among North American Trees for the size and beauty of their foliage as well as of the flowers. Other Magnolias are of Indian origin.

2. MAGNOLIA. L. Magnolia.

Carpels arranged in a crowded spike, opening at the external angle, 1-2-seeded, persistent. Seeds baccate, somewhat cordate, pendulous from the capsule by means of a very long seed-stalk.-Named in honour of Peter Magnol, a distinguished Professor of Botany at Montpellier.

1. M. GRANDIFLORA (Laurel-leaved Magnolia); leaves evergreen, oval-oblong coriaceous, glossy above, rusty beneath, flowers erect, petals 9-10 spreading. Linn. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 80.

7. lanceolata; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, bent at the extremity, flowers less expanded. (TAB. LXXIV.)-Bot. Mag. ed. 1. 1952.

CULTURE. This family of plants may be truly ranked amongst the most favoured in cultivation amongst us, and on account of its rich ever-green leaves and fragrant blossoms, this individual would be generally considered the finest of its family. Of M. grandiflora there are several seedling varieties, distinguished more by their leaves

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