MAGNOLIA. The magnolia is one of most magnificent of the flowering trees of United States, being handsome in the tree and leaf, elegant in its bloom, and exceedingly fra-- grant. Unfortunately none but the more spicuous are hardy in the West, north of the latitude of Tennessee. In Nashville, Tenn , we have seen large trees of Magnolia flora, in the yards of citizens, the leaves scarcely browhed bv the winter. In the Gulf States, its native home, this. splendid species is a common tree of the open forest. Even of those. called hardy, none of them are so in the West, much north of the tude of St. Louis. The Umbrella tree or magnolia, M. umbrella; the cumber tree, 3/ acuminata, and the small or ral magnolia, H. glauca, are the• most hardy. Great-leaved nolia, M. phylla, is a native of southeast tucky. The leaved magnolia. .M: Fraseri, is found in Kentucky and Virginia, and south, along the entire range of the Alleghanies. M.
cordata is the great Cucumber tree of Georgia, and 31: Grandiflora, the great Laural magnolia of the Gulf States, .are the evergreen species There are many hybrid sorts that have been duced by florists, none, however, worthy of attention that are hardy in the North. As among the so called hardy varieties,.we give a cut of the flowers of magnolia speciosa, a Chinese hybrid, called Showy-flowered magnolia, the flowers of quarter size. The flowers are some, late, and hold their bloom well, and the tree is one of the hardiest of the foreign varie ties. Nevertheless, we should not advise the planting even of the hardy varieties north of 40°, except in peculiar situations, as for instance Rochester, N. Y., and the fruit region of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.