. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the ISTortheen States and Canada. 411 The Paulownia is a beautiful tree, intro- duced into this country from China and Japjn for ornamental purposes, and has become thor- oughly naturalized in localities, where the climate is not too severe. It is wide-spreading in habit of growth, its short thick trunk, some- times 2-3 ft. in diameter, usually dividing within a few feet from the ground into few large branches, which form a wide and often flat-topped open head,
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the ISTortheen States and Canada. 411 The Paulownia is a beautiful tree, intro- duced into this country from China and Japjn for ornamental purposes, and has become thor- oughly naturalized in localities, where the climate is not too severe. It is wide-spreading in habit of growth, its short thick trunk, some- times 2-3 ft. in diameter, usually dividing within a few feet from the ground into few large branches, which form a wide and often flat-topped open head, if there is sufficient room for lateral development. It is a remarkable tree at all seasons of the year. When leafless, in winter, it bears large upright clusters of naked flower-buds, which developed the previous season to open early in the following spring, with the unfolding of the velvety young leaves, and then become so many beautiful pyramids of long bhie flowers. These are delightfully fragrant, and the whole atmosphere for some distance from the tree is redolent with their perfume; but, alas! their duration is far too short, and the ground within only a day or two is strewn with their withering corollas. In summer the tree is at- tractive on account of its big heart-shaped leaves, which cast an abundance of shade. After these fall, in the autumn, the clusters of fruit-pods, suggestive of so many miniature bishop's miters, open and liberate to the winds innumerable small filmy-winged seeds. The clusters of empty blackened pods then persist and rattle on the leafless branches during the following winter or longer, when they detract somewhat from the ornamental value of the tree unless removed. Such is the yearly pro- gram of the Paulownia in climates south of about the latitude of New York City, which limits the boundary of its naturalization. Farther north its flower-buds usually winter- kill, but it can be and often is grown as an ornamental foliage jjlant as far north
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