|clusters at the bract tips.
| | |Tender.
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[Illustration: _FLOWER OF YULAN (Magnolia conspicua). ABOUT HALF NATURAL
SIZE._]

[Illustration: _YULAN (Magnolia conspicua); ITS USE AS A WALL SHRUB,
CROWSLEY PARK, HENLEY._]

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| COUNTRY OR | COLOUR |
NAME | ORIGIN AND | AND | GENERAL REMARKS.
| NATURAL ORDER. | SEASON. |
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| | |
Magnolia acuminata |North America; |Greenish |From a flowering point of
(Cucumber tree) |Magnoliaceae |yellow |view this is one of the
| | |least showy of the
| | |Magnolias, but the tree has
| | |handsome foliage; it
| | |reaches a height of many
| | |feet. The leaves are nearly
| | |a foot long, and half as
| | |much in width. There is a
| | |tree 60 feet high in Syon
| | |Park, Middlesex.
| | |
*M. conspicua (the |China |Pure |Of all the Magnolias, and
Yulan) | |white; |indeed of all our deciduous
| |early |trees, this is one of the
| |Spring |finest, and also one of the
| | |earliest flowering. It
| | |blooms in some seasons as
| | |early as March, and the
| | |pure white flowers, like
| | |silver chalices, stand out
| | |boldly from the bare
| | |dark-coloured branches.
| | |Owing to the flowers
|