MAGNOLIA. The magnplia is one of the most magnificent of the flowering trees of the United States, being handsome in the tree and leaf, elegant in its bloom, and exceedingly fra grant. Unfortunately none but the more incon spicuous are hardy in the West, north of the latitude of Tennessee. In Nashville, Tam., we have seen large trees of Magnolia Grandi flora, in the yards of citizens, the leaves scarcely browned by the winter. In the Gulf States, its native home tbls 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 lati tude of St. Louis. The Umbrella tree or magnolia, N. umbrella; the Cu cumber tree, H.
acuminate, and the small or ra] magnolia, M. glauca, are the most hardy. The Great-leaved mag nolia, M. macn phylla, is a native of southeast Ken tucky. The Ear leaved magnolia; • M. Proem is found in Kentucky and Virginia, and south along the entire range of the Alleghanies. M.
cordate is the great Cucumber tree of Georgia, and M Grandiflora, the great Laurel magnolia of the Gulf States, are the evergreen species. There are many hybrid sorts that have been pro 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 hand-• 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.