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Notes from Vico Morcote by Sir Peter Smithers Notes from Vico Morcote by Sir Peter Smithers In these notes last year I wrote campbelfii 'Ethel Hillier' covered that my intended trial of the great itself with extremely elegant white tree magnolias of the Yulania section cup-and-saucer flowers with the "failed lamentably" because so many slightest pink Bush in the "cup. " All of them were sent not true to name. have an excellent treelike growth. A In the garden patience is the most 40 foot tree of M. campbellii in full essential of all the virtues. This bloom from head to foot, even year's notes are an exercise in though it be an indifferent variety, is wordeating. nevertheless a truly magnificent It is clear that my first large order spectacle, but if one is going to wait for magnolias in the winter of 1989- ten to twenty years for a tree to 70 was handled by the nursery stafF, bloom, it makes no sense to plant and that instead of the grafted anything but the very best. I can plants offered in the catalog they state without any hesitation that the sent me a bunch of seedlings. Some trees rated "XXXXX" are amongst were pretty, some worthless and few the very best varieties of the great true to name. But in later years, tree magnolias. Nevertheless, it was following correspondence with Mr. M. sprengeri 'Copeland Court' which Treseder in person, he sent me a stole the show in 1988. number of plants most of which, though not all, were in fact grafts Copeland Court and thus true to name. Hillier's phmts with one exception were true Sent to me by Mr. Treseder in to name. These later plantings are 1977, it grew into a sturdy now Bowering and the following symmetrical densely branched tree of table summaries the results of my broadly columnar habit and, in the planting of tree magnolias of the summer of 1987, wes still putting on Yulania section to date. very vigorous growth at all points. It In the spring of 1988 M. had not yet shown a bloom. In the campbeflii 'Princess Margaret' FCC late summer I looked anxiously for a displayed its magnificent crimson Bower bud and 6nally amongst the pink blooms, M. moflicomata dense foliage I sighted one. We 'Lanarth' produced the fabulous would know next spring whether we purple Bowers turning with age and had the right thing. I forgot about it strong sun to a delightful lavender until the leaves fell, when I went to but keeping their elegant form, M. look again. A 6rst blooming is campbellii 'Sidbury' produced its first usually fmm one to twenty Bowers. flower, a splendid clear bright pink To my astonishment I calculated on a strong shapely tree, M. over 200 buds, spread broadly across campbeifii 'Landicla' covered itself the top of the tree. It would be a with magnificently colored Bowers a great arc of blossom! good deal brighter than the picture When the first bud showed color in Treseder (MagnofiasJ, M. my plant of M. sprengeri 'Diva' was 20 Tree Magnohas of the Ynlania Section Narc Year Girth Height Rating Planted Flowered PI. X 'Ann Roses' 76 85 16' 26' xxx (PI. X 'Buaxard) Not true 76 86 14' 30' xax (M. X 'Caerhays Belle') Not true 70 82 cut ou't (M. caepbellii 'Caerhays Clone') Not true 71 83 28' 37' xxxx &M. carpbellii alba 'Caerhays White Clone' ) Not true 70 82 31' 40' xxx M. carpbellii alba 'Chyverton' 79 86 16" 21' xxxxx M. caspbellii alba seedling 78 85 9' 19' xxxx (M. caspbellii 'DarJeeling') Not true 70 80 set back xxx M. carpbellii 'Eric Walther' 79 88 18' 22' XXX PI. csepbelli i 'Ethel Hillier' 77 84 24' 26' xxxxx M. carpbellii 'Landicla' 74 86 26' 32' xxxxxs M. caepbellii 'Princess Nargaret' FCC 78 86 18' 30' xxxxx M, caspbellii 'Veitch Clone' (Not PI. X vei tchii ) 78 85 blown down xxx M. caepbelli I rollicosata 'Lanarth' 76 88 26' 30' xxxxx M. caspbellii rollicorata 'Haharanee' 79 86 14 20' xxxx PI. caspbelli i 'Sidbury' 77 88 22" 30' xxxxx M. dawsoniana Clarke's var. 79 87 13' 20' xxxx (M. X 'Hawk') Not true 76 84 cu't out &PI. sargentiana roberts dark fora) Not true 70 83 23' 22' xxxxs M. sargentiana robusta Chyverton dark fore 76 86 20" 24' XXXX (PI. sprengera 'Claret Cup') Not true 70 79 25' 26' xxx M. sprengeri 'Copeland Court' 77 88 26" 30' xxxxx M. sprengeri var. diva 'Diva' 76 85 10' 18' xxxxxs Note: All qirth eeasureeents are taken at 3' above ground level Heights are ey best estiaate short of trigonoaetry xxxxx = a eagnolia of the very hrghest quality xxxx = a eagnolia worth planting xxx = a eagnolia which I would not plant but whxch, being an established flowering tree, rs worth keepinq "cut out' = cut down because not worth garden space 9 = growth arrested due to accident or drsease The following tree aagnolias of the Yulania section are also in the collect&on hut have not yet flowered: M. caspbellii and ita hybrids - 'Horde Hill', 'Betty Jessel', 'Charles Raff)11', 'Darleeling', 'Early Rose', 'Nark Jury', 'Queen Caroline'. 'Treve Holean', and 'Wakehurst'. PI. dawson&ass 'Chyverton' M. sargentrana robusta and rts hyhrrds — 'Blood Hoon', Chyverton pale fora, 'Hichael Roses'. PI. sprengerr and rts hybrrds — 'Errc Savrll' and 'Thoeas Weasel' 21 already in bloom. The color of tree since it was planted, 'Copeland Court' sent me scurrying corresponded with his "erect tree", for the books. It was unmistakably very different from the "outer brighter than 'Diva'. But was my branches widely spreading and 'Diva' a true 'Diva'? It had not horizontal or pendulous" which he grown particularly well, having been gives as the habit of 'Diva', and set back for some unknown reason which my 'Diva' displays. early in its life. A careful comparison Now in this garden we can look with both the Treseder texts down upon many of our magnolias convinced me that without doubt I from above, and, particularly in this had the right thing. Turning to the perspective, there is an immediate descriptions of 'Copeland Court' and obvious difference between the (Treseder, Magnolias, p. 109) I two plants. The tepals of 'Diva' are found the amusing account of how described as "rose carmine outside the unflowered plant was saved from and white flushed or streaked with destruction when Copeland Court pale rose or carmine within", and became part of the Truro Cathedral this corresponds exactly with my Choir School, and how after many plant of 'Diva'. Seen from above or adventures it finally flowered. "The from eye-level, the impression is of a flowers. .. are much richer in colour pink and white display, while from than those of the Caerhays parent beneath the tree the display is pink. ['Diva'], being of a deep clear pink, It was at once clear that the shaded crimson, but it would be impression created by 'Copeland necessary to grow a grafted tree of Court' is that of a self pink flower, 'Diva' beside it to make an accurate from whatever angle it is seen. On comparison. .. Suffice it to say that, close examination the inside of the when viewed at the end of a day tepals is found to be in fact a solid spent visiting such renowned pink though slightly less bright than Magnolia collections as Caerhays, the exterior of the flower. Both Trewithen and Trengwainton. .. , the magnolias are a magnificent spectacle vivid colour of this solitary Magnolia of beauty, but if I had to be content created a lasting impression. .. " Thus with one or the other, there could be Mr. Neil Treseder. no hesitation in the choice both for Well, I had indeed a grafted plant color and habit: 'Copeland Court'. of 'Diva' growing within twenty This is, then, the place to remember yards of 'Copeland Court' so if I had with gratitude Major Mischler, the the right thing it would be possible headmaster of Truro Cathedral Choir to make the direct comparison which School, whose care and forethought Treseder pmposed. When the great preserved the original tree of this arc of flowers opened the impression beautiful magnolia from destruction. was indeed staggering! Remembering that Nigel Hohnan's Cornish 'Star Wars' Revisited. temperament brought a tear to his eye when he first beheld the open Where does the analysis in the flower of 'Treve Holman', I am above table leave the new "instant perhaps allowed to admit to being blooming" magnolias which have deeply moved, although not a campbellii or sargentiana robusta Cornishmen, by the spectacle before blood? 'Iolanthe' is comparable with me. the stars of the table for flower size, 'Copeland Court' was exactly as display and habit, but not for color. described by Treseder, clearly deeper It is beautiful but pale by and brighter in color even that comparison, approximating to M. 'Diva', and the growth, allowing for campbellii 'Eric Walther'. 'Serene' is the happy uninterrupted life of my an altogether more modest plant, a 22 splendid thing for a smaU garden. catches the eye even though it is in But the flower of 'Star Wars' is flower beside M. campbellii definitely in the same league as 'Landicla'. it is Af. X soulangiana 'Princess Margaret', 'Sidbury' and 'Burgundy'. The luminous self bluish- 'Landicla'. It is not quite as fine a pink of this mysterious flower, color as any of the three, nor so without any hint of the purplish-reds elegant a shape, but it need not be of most soulangianas, defies ashamed in their company. I read description and is unique in with interest Os Blumhart's magnolia so far as I know.
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