seed. These should be in pots, and placed round the stool of M. Thomsoniana, so as to engraft them on in the spring, as soon as the buds begin to swell, and by the following autumn the union will be sufficiently firm to allow of their separation. They should have some damp moss tied round the part grafted; and the head of the stock and the heel of the scion should remain until the following spring; when, if the scions look healthy, the bandage may be removed, and the head and heel of the stock and scion may be cut close, and the plants will be safe.

The M. glauca is principally raised from North American seeds, which come in large quantities to the seedsmen of this country. Mr. Charlwood, of Tavistock-row, Covent Garden, London, imports a very general collection of American seeds annually. These should be sown in pots of bog-earth about the beginning of March, and placed in gentle heat under glass. After they have produced their second leaves, they may be taken from the artificial heat and set in a moderately shady place in the open air, until October, when they should be placed in a frame or pit under glass for the winter. In the following March or April they should be planted out in beds in the open ground, where they may remain until large enough to transplant on the borders of the shrubbery. When large they are very hardy, being deciduous, and ripening their buds early in the autumn: the ends from whence the blossom-buds proceed are seldom hurt by our severest winters. There is a variety called sempervirens, which is not strictly an evergreen, but retains its leaves longer than the common one. It flowers from June to September, and is highly fragrant, resembling in its scent the Lily of the Valley. The roots of it are very aromatic in their scent and taste; they are eaten with avidity by the beavers of North America.

HAB. Virginia to Florida. H. Fl. June and July. This variety has flowers three times the size of the common M. glauca, of a cream colour, changing as they fade to rusty brown; perfuming the surrounding air for a considerable distance.

3. M. ACUMINATA (blue Magnolia or Cucumber Tree); leaves deciduous oval acuminated downy beneath. (TAB. LXXVI.)— Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 756. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 80. Sims in Curt. Bot. Mag. ed. 1. t. 2427.

CULTURE. M. acuminata or the Cucumber Tree, so called from its seed-vessel resembling a Cucumber, is one of the hardiest of the

Genus, but rather inconspicuous in its blossoms. It forms a large tree with orange-coloured wood, the leaves being broad in proportion to their length. It is perhaps the most hardy of the Genus; but having less beauty than most of the others, is not so much cultivated. Like the glauca, it is raised from imported seeds, and in the same manner precisely.

HAB. Pennsylvania to Carolina. H. Fl. May and June. The wood is yellow, and is used by the natives for making bowls.

4. M. AURICULATA (ear-leaved Magnolia); leaves deciduous glabrous, somewhat glaucous beneath obovato-lanceolate deeply cordate at the base, the lobes obtuse approximate, sepals three very patent, petals nine oblong. (TAB. LXXVII.)—Lam. Dict. v. 3. p. 645. Sims in Curt. Bot. Mag. ed. 1. t. 1206. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 80.

CULTURE. The lobes at the base of the leaf in this species of Magnolia are not so conspicuous, as immediately to suggest the origin of the specific name. Nothing can be more delicate than the texture of its foliage in early spring, and if no rough winds occur, the leaves grow to full twelve inches long, and half that breadth. The blossoms, nearly as fragrant as those of M. grandiflora, are showy; but from the narrower petals they have a loose appearance. The species is a native of the Southern States of North America, from whence the seeds are sparingly sent, on which account it is most frequently propagated by layers or by inarching on M. tripetala. HAB. Southern States of North America. H. Fl. July.

5. M. MACROPHYLLA (large-leaved Magnolia); branches medullose fragile, leaves deciduous, oblongo-obovate somewhat cuneate cordate at the base, petals 6-9 obovate. (TAB. LXXVIII.)-Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 327. Sims in Curt. Bot. Mag. ed. 1. t. 2189. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 80.

CULTURE. This magnificent shrub, for it perhaps seldom or never has been seen to acquire the stature of a tree, is one of the most desirable of the Genus; its leaves, when vigorous, being from two to three feet in length, and eight or ten inches in breadth, of a bright green on the upper, and glaucous hue on their under sides. The blossoms, which are white, rank, perhaps, as the largest of the Magnolias; but from the scarcity of the species, we hardly know to what size they may yet attain. Seeds of it are seldom sent to this country;

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