☙ Magnolia, Southern
Magnolia grandiflora L. (1759).WFO
Period English: laurel-leaved magnolia.
Sentiments:
Dignity ▲◆ (1825-1850); HP:FE TTA LH S&K HGA:OT
High-souled â–² (1840); CHW
Region: Florida;HP:FE HGA:OT South-east north Americas.
Seasonality: Evergreen; flowers late spring.
Period Colours: White CHW
Floral Emblems
Henry Phillips, 1825 â—†
The grandeur of this flower is appropriate to the elevated station which it takes in the vegetable kingdom, for in its native soil it advances itself above the forest trees, displaying its dignity, and dispensing its fragrance throughout the woods of Florida.
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Flora's Lexicon
Catharine Harbeson Waterman, 1840 â–²
This is a splendid evergreen tree, rising, in its native country, to sixty feet or more, but with us scarcely exceeding thirty or forty feet. The leaves grow from eight inches to one foot long, in form not unlike those of the common laurel; the flowers are white, of a large size, and emit a pleasant fragrance. The plant is not so hardy as some other species, and should therefore be planted in a warm situation.
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Oriental Text Book and Language of Flowers
Henry Gardiner Adams, 1850 â—†
Dignity.
Most dignified of flowers, the trees
Of Florida thou climb'st above,
And send'st thy fragrance on each breeze
That sweeps the wild, and stirs the grove.