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American Magnolia Society Volume 4, Eumber 2 of '"' American Magnolia Society Presideat& John M. Foun, lr, Secretary-Treasurer: tx Todd Cresluua, Morris Arhoretam. Philalelohia la, Pa. lus Frederich St., Santa Crux, Calif. Ashei cordata Three Paces Forward cylindrica Joliu M. Fooo, JR. denudata (conspicua) Fraseri Morris Aydoretum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania grandiflora I» TMF. PaacEoiuo lsaua (Volume 4, Number 1) of this grandiflora 'Gallissoniensis' NawsLETTER your president described in some detail his grandiflora 'Kingsville Fastigate' futile efforts to compile a Finding List of Magnolias to grandiflora 'Miss Bogue' assist the members of this Society in locating their de- grandiilora 'Praecox' siderata. At the same time he issued an invitation to indi- grandiflora 'St. Mary' viduals and nurseries to submit lists of their offerings. grandiflora 7e,'virginiana (Freem an hybrids) The response, while not overwhelming, has been most Kobus gratifying and should encourage others to follow suit. Kobus borealis Our fellow member, Mr. Henry J. Hohman, of Kingsville Kobus 'Wada's Memory' Nurseries, Maryland, has supplied us with a magnificent liliflora list of 47 species and varieties which he has available and liliflora n j«ra states that he will be happy to quote sizes and prices upon Loebneri request. Loebneri 'Dr. Merrill' Another member, Mr. James Gossler, of Springfield, macrophylla Oregon, presents a shorter but very choice list and says that obovata although most of his plants are container grown he would offiicinalis 'Biloba' prefer shipping in the dormant season. sahcifolia And, finally, our indefatigable Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Magnolia 7&' Watsonii D. Todd Gresham, of Santa Cruz, California, has prevailed Gulf Stream Nurseries, Wachapyeague, Vd. upon W. B. Clarke gt Co. of San Jose, California, (a whole- Photo: Dr. John M. Fogg, Jr. sale nursery) to sell plants to members of our Society upon the following conditions: a) All plants to cost $7.50 each, postpaid. b) Members should send their lists and money to Mr. Gresham dt once. c) Mr. Gresham will go to Clarke's Nursery, select the plants and assemble the orders for shipment as soon as the plants are dormant. d) Items not available on 1967 order will be filled from the 1968 crop. Thus, it will be observed, three important sections of the country are represented in the lists which follow. It is hoped that by the time the next Nrwsl. ETrER goes to press we shall be able to publish a list emanating from the south- eastern states. KINGSYILLE Nuaszatas& KtNCSVILLE& MARYLAND 21807 acuminata Watsonii Wilsonii W. B. CI.ARIte a Co., SAR Jose. , CAI. IFGRHIA Campbellii Campbelli mollicomata Delavayi denudate grandiflora 'St. Mary' liliflora 'Gracilis' Loebneri 'Dr. Merrill' salicifolia 'W. B. Clarke' (New) Sargentiana 'Robusta' Soulangiana 'Lennei' Soulangiana 'Lennei Alba' Soulangiana 'Lennei Early' Soulangiana 'Rustica Rubra' Soulangiana 'San Jose' Magnolia Kobus var. borealis Sprengeri 'Diva' Rochester, N. Y. stellata Photo: Dr. John M. Fogg, Jr. stellata 'Rosea' stel late 'Rubra' This figure was inadvertently omitted from Volume 4, stellata 'Waterlily' No. 1, where it was intended to illustrate Mr. Savage's Thompsoniana article on "Magnolias in Michigan, " page 2. Veitchii Veitchii 'Rubra' salicifolia 'Elsie Frye' Wilsonii Sieboldii (parviflora) Related genera Soulangiana Winteri Soulangiana 'Alba' Drimys Michelia Doltsopa Soulangiana 'Alexandrine' Michelia fuscata Soulangiana 'Amabilis' Soulangiana 'Burgundy Rose' Soulangiana 'Candolleana' Soulangiana 'Dodd ¹4' Soulangiana 'Grace McDade' Magnolias In Michigan Soulangiana 'Lennei' PART III Soulangiana 'Lombardy Rose' PHILIP J. SAVAGE, JR. Soulangiana 'San Jose' Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Sprengeri 'Diva' stellata THE SWEETBAY MAGNOLIA 'Rosea' stellata THERE Is ArrAR ov Roses Hs Ir. There is certainly lemon stellata 'Waterlily' and perhaps orange, and more than a hint of iced tea. As tripetala Louise Wilder wrote in her wonderful book "The Fragrant Veitchii Path", Magnolia virginiono has 'one of the best of outdoor virginiana (glauca) scents —cool and fruity and sweet. " If anything, this is an Watsonii understatement. Wilsonii With a little care in pruning, this type species of our James Gosst. ER, 1200 WEAvea ROAD, SPRINGFIELD, favorite genus makes a graceful, tall shrub in the northern OREGOH 97477 states. Here in Michigan, the commonest trade form is just Campbel1ii about as arctic as Soufongiono, and holds many of its glossy, cordata dark green leaves until the Christmas season. Like most denudata species that grow in swampy places in nature, the sweetbay grandiflora likes its soil moist but not soggy, and prefers sand to clay. macrophylla If you can mix a liberal amount of good sphagnum peat obovata into rich sandy loam, you have its ideal soil. salic if olia The older books on horticulture list several regional Sargentii 'Robusta' forms, or perhaps old cultivars of this species, including sinensis longifolio, sempervirens and grandifloso. Although these Soulangiana seem to have become lost, the species is a variable one, and Sprengeri 'Diva' I have noted some forms in the past thirty years that seemed stellata distinct enough to be propagated as improved varieties. Thompsoniana Bailey's "Cyclopedia of Horticulture" describes the flower Veitchii of M. virginiono as having "nine to twelve" petals, and this virginiana number has been widely repeated by writers who have used PAoe 2 NE'WSLETTER Decesiaea 1967 this excellent work as a reference. I don't wish to be a "nit masonry wall, and it survived only two years. The plants picker, " but almost all the typical flowers of this species of 'Freeman' in the U. S. National Arboretum are really that I have examined through the years have had eight magnificent ornamentals, beautifully columnar in habit and petals, plus three papery, greenish and very distinct sepals. with the true swee tbay scent to their far larger flowers. Wild plants I have seen in New Jersey seemed entirely Swee tbay grows to sawtimber size in Florida, and actually uniform in this respect. A few forms in the trade show a makes up an appreciable percentage of the "Magnolia" tendency toward the production of a few pets loid stamens& lumber produced by the small sawmills of that state. I am and I have one strain in which this is the rule rather than sure if this Magnolia had been discovered in Western the exception. I have had blossoms with as many as sixteen China by Forest or Farrer or Wilson, it would still be re- true petals, plus one or two wide, flattened stamens, and garded as two, and possibly three distinct species. the flower is definitely improved by such "doubleness. " AN UNUSUAL UMBRELLA TREE Vigorous plants of sweetbay often commence flowering Magnolia Iripetala looks as if it came straight from the the third year from seed, and the flower buds themselves tropics. Its whorled leaves and polished brown twigs show a surprising variety. Under optimum growing condi- huge are interesting and exotic, and when the surprising winter tions, fat, furry flower buds are formed on the tip of each hardincss of this tough mountaineer becomes better known, terminal twig, giving a superficial appearance almost like into in the so-called precocious flowering Magnolias. The flowers this species should come much wider use northern state landscape contained in these actually open before the leaves are fully planning. are few trees this Magnolia in the developed. Buds on smaller side branchlets lack this pubes- There a large of Detroit which have taken forty or more winters with- cence and are relatively tiny, but develop to full size and area seed. flower from two weeks to two months after the earliest out damage, and regularly produce ample crops of A few lined out some tri petals seedlings for ones, providing an unspectacular but wonderfully long years ago I was and season of bloom. I have had a few plants that regularly use as understocks. One exceptionally vigorous moved it "specimen" the formed two terminal flower buds on each twig, the smaller symmetrical and I to a spot on lawn. This its produced its first flowers five and bud growing from the base of the peduncle of its big spring ( ) & they were unusual for their size, and in having sixteen, brother, and opening to the same size about two weeks later. rather than the usual six, petals, plus of course the three gran the Some sweetbays have a greenish tinge to thi base of papery green sepsis that must have suggested species out these flowers were dinner their petals. In others this area is cream colored, and in one name. When they opened flat, size, as shown in the dark attached, variety at least it is a very pale "angel skin" pink I really plate veiy photograph unattractive to most should underline the words 'very pale, " so as not to give and while their odors close up is it is milder than that of Iripetala trees have had the wrong impression. Asked my wife what color she saw people, I through the the breeze, at little distance, it is at the very base of the white petals, and she said, 'Well, years. On a di/la" actually quite pleasant. pink, I guess. Let this indicate its palcncss. Fortunately, this pinkish variant also tends to the afore- MAGNOLIA GRANOIFLORA IN THE NORTH inentioned and at least occasionally produces doubleness, Thc high ornamental value of our beautiful evergreen the twin flower buds. It may be that by bud selection alone M. i a is known throughout the warm and tem- tliese desirable characteristics could be made to occur much perate areas of the world. Even in southeast Asia and Indo- more and a swee tbay clone developed that would regularly, nesia, whet c many splendid species of Magnolia, Miefielia, this little native back to the position it held bring pretty &tfan lier ia and Talauma are common lorest trees, we find prior to its eclipse more spectacular Asiatic relatives.
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