grandiflora

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C. montana grandiflora is a beautiful variety, having large white flowers so abundantly produced as to hide the foliage.

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  • The evergreen magnolia is the Southern magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora (and its cultivated varieties), which bears large white blossoms during warmer months from late spring to early autumn. —  SacBee -- Latest News
  • H grandiflora, or peegees, grow quite tall and can be trained into a tree form.
  • Turn left at the Magnolia grandiflora, then right, then straight down the hill, then … No! I need a map! —  The Australian | News |
  • Magnolia grandiflora, which won the Charleston Horticultural Society's —  Tales from the Microbial Laboratory
  • The magnolia grandiflora is found in groves absolutely, and growing from forty to fifty feet high This night, after the play, an old acquaintance, Mr. Howard Payne, came to see me: he had just descended the Mississippi from St. Louis; his object in travelling being, as he informed me, to obtain subscriptions for a journal he purposes to establish in London; its object, to cultivate and sustain an exchange of literary opinions, and a more liberal and generous intercourse in literature than at present exists. —  Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
 

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