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YULAN MAGNOLIA)

A Chinese species of great beauty. The tree is of medium size, shrub-like in growth while young, but attains the size of a tree in time. The flowers are large, pure white, very numerous, and appear before the leaves.

MAGNOLIA NORBERTIANA. (NORBERT'S MAGNOLIA). - A hybrid between M. conspicua and M. obovata. Tree, vigorous and of regular outline; foliage, showy; flowers, white and dark purple. One of the best.

MAGNOLIA SOULANGEANA. (SOULANGE'S MAGNOLIA). - A hybrid, in habit closely resembling M. conspicua. Shrubby and branching while young, but becoming a fair sized tree. Flowers, white and purple, cup shaped, and three to five inches in diameter. Foliage, large glossy and massive. It forms a handsome tree worked upon the M. acuminata. One of the hardiest and finest of the foreign magnolias. Blooms later than conspicua.

There is one thing, however, always to be remembered: In ordering any tree or plant of your nurseryman describe your situation and locality. State some plants that are hardy and half-hardy with you, and then the advice given in relation to varieties may be worth money to you and save disappointment. ESCULUS. (HORSE CHESTNUT). - Among the horse chestnuts is a double flowered variety that is magnificent, as any person will admit who has seen this tree as we have, fifty feet high in its glory of blossoms. Not the least value of this tree is that the blossoms are sterile, and hence the saving of the usual "horse chestnut litter" on the lawn.

DOUBLE-FLOWERING CHERRY. (CERASUS). - There are few trees which combine beauty with usefulness as do the cherries. We illustrate the flowers of the double- RACEMES DOUBLE FLOWERED HORSE CHESTNUT-ONE-FIFTH SIZE. The flowering cherry one-quarter size. They flower in May in the North, and are especially beautiful. The flowers are so numerous as to conceal the branches, and present to the eye nothing but a mass of bloom, each flower resembling a miniature rose. drooping varieties of the ornamental cherries are especially adapted to beautifying small grounds. As single specimens on the lawn they are unique and handsome, and require only to be better known in order to be extensively planted. See next page. THE DOUBLE-FLOWERING THORN. (CRATÆGUS). There are no trees or shrubs more attractive than the flowering thorns. They are small trees, attractive in shape and foliage, where they have room, and by judicious pruning can be brought into small limits. They flower in May and June. The foliage is varied and attractive, flowers very showy and often highly perfumed. The fruit is ornamental. There are numerous varieties, all of which are hardy and will thrive in any dry soil.