. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. ' f ; a- :!' li ; ii / il ii; I'i' '^ : Catalpa syringafoUu, THE LILAC-LEAVED CATALPA-TREE. Synonymes. Bignonia catalpa, Catalpa syringcefoUa, Catalpa, Buis Shavanon, Trompeteiibaum, Catali)a, Catawba-tree, LiN.\^.us, Species Plantarum. Miciufx, American Sylva. Don, Miller's Dictionary. Lo
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. ' f ; a- :!' li ; ii / il ii; I'i' '^ : Catalpa syringafoUu, THE LILAC-LEAVED CATALPA-TREE. Synonymes. Bignonia catalpa, Catalpa syringcefoUa, Catalpa, Buis Shavanon, Trompeteiibaum, Catali)a, Catawba-tree, LiN.\^.us, Species Plantarum. Miciufx, American Sylva. Don, Miller's Dictionary. Loudon, Arboretum 13r'itannicum. Britain, Fiunof., and Italy. French Louisiana. Germany. United States. form of ii3 (lowf figfr:f'S;r "^"^•'''"^' ^'-"' Amoncan Sylva, pi. 64; Loudon, , vil., pi. 2,5 et 216; and the Description, ^ ^^:p|HE Catalpa syringaifolia, in =^0 r L^ its natural habitat, fre- quently exceeds fifty feet - .-. e^i/J5dl 111 height, with a trunk Irom eighteen to twenty-four inches in diameter. It ]s easily recognized by its bark, which is of a silver-gray colour, and but slightly furrowed; and by Its wide-spreading head, disproportioned in size to the diameter of its trunk. It also dilfers from most other trees in the fewness of its branches, and the line, palc-grccn of its very large leaves, which are late in coming out in spring^ and are'among the first to shrink at the approach of autumn! 1 hey are heart-shaped, petiolated, often six or seven inches in width, glabrous above, and downv beneath, particularly on the principal ribs. The flowers, which put forth in July or August oc- cur in large bunches, at die extremity of the . m branches and are white, maiked with purple and yellow soot., Tn \..rl m seasons, they are succeeded bv capsules or seed nndruTT f^ favourable those of the common c';ip W nn n ^'^''''-P'^^' ^^^'^'i somewhat resemble long, and curveH; ^.;jff5mbl nAioriT'^'^^^^^^^^^ ""''&q
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