. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . Indian Bean, Catalpa.—The catalpas areshowy, late flowering trees and very valuable on thisaccount. Growth very rapid and strong, forming trees withnicelv rounded crowns in a few years. The common catalpa((. bignonioides) has erect, thyreoid panicles twelve inches,or more long, with white flowers, spotted with yellow andpurple, and large, heart-shaped leaves on long stalks. TheJapanese catalpa (C. Koempferii) has much smaller, creamy-white flowers and -lossy, green, heart-shaped leaves. Theyl >th f
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . Indian Bean, Catalpa.—The catalpas areshowy, late flowering trees and very valuable on thisaccount. Growth very rapid and strong, forming trees withnicelv rounded crowns in a few years. The common catalpa((. bignonioides) has erect, thyreoid panicles twelve inches,or more long, with white flowers, spotted with yellow andpurple, and large, heart-shaped leaves on long stalks. TheJapanese catalpa (C. Koempferii) has much smaller, creamy-white flowers and -lossy, green, heart-shaped leaves. Theyl >th flower in July. The variety known as Teas hybridflowers very freely. It is of a more spreading habit. Thecatalpas will grow well in any moderately good soil. THE FIGWOKT FAMILY. Paulownia, Paulovmia imperialis.—This very ornamen-tal tree resembles the catalpas in form and habit. The 2l6 ffloweriiuj TLvccs. leaves are large and heart-shaped, and the flowers, whichappear before the leaves in spring, are collected in verylarge, terminal panicles. The color is a beautiful violet-. FIQ. 107.—PAULOWNIA (PAULOWNIA IMPERIALISM blue. A fine lawn tree, tender in the extreme North. Itgrows well in an open, sandy lawn in a sunny and shelteredposition. Perfectly hardy south of Newr York. THE OLIVE FAMILY. Flowering Ash, JFraxinus Ornus.—A very handsometree with pinnate leaves, rounded crowns, and of a grace-ful habit, with large masses of creamy-white flowers tingedbrown late in spring. A fine, showy tree for shelteredpositions south of New York. Fine as a specimen on alawn or by the margin of a lake or river. Perfectly hardyin Europe and growing luxuriantly as far as the fifty sixthdecree north latitude. IV. ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS.
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