analogous to the south of Devonshire* where its blossoms can 
be reasonably looked for. About London we find our strongest 
and healthiest plants with their terminal shoots (which alone 
produce flowers) nipped, and more or less killed, by the winter’s 
cold, or, what is worse, the biting north-east winds of spring. 
The summer-growth of this tree is almost everywhere, in the 
middle and south of England at least, remarkable: stout limbs 
are thrown out ina short time, bearing ample foliage ; but these 
limbs are soft and succulent, the later shoots incapable of bear- 
ng a moderate frost. In France, even at Paris, the wood ripens 
etter. 
Although forming a tree (in its native country, Japan, thirty 
to forty feet high), and bearing flowers like a Bignonia, and with 
a foliage and habit like Cata/pa, the Paulownia belongs never- 
theless to the Scrophularia family. Dr. Siebold considers it “ un 
des plus magnifiques végétaux du Japon;” and partly on this 
account and partly “parceque la feuille ornée de trois tiges de 
fleurs a servi d’armes au célébre héros Tarkasma, est encore 
aujourd’hui fort en honneur en Japon,”—‘ nous avons pris la 
liberté de nommer Paviownra ce nouveau genre, pour rendre 
hommage au nom de Son Altesse Impériale et Royale la Princesse 
héréditaire des Pays Bas.” 
In Japan the trunk of the tree attains an elevation of thirty to 
forty feet. Its growth in Dr. Siebold’s garden has been six to 
ten feet in one year, and in three years a diameter of four to five 
inches. The flowers appear in April, and are grouped in large 
compound panicles, like those of the Horse-chestnut. It appears 
most abundantly in the southern countries of J apan, flourishing 
in the valleys and on the sides of hills exposed to the powerful 
action of the sun. 
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified. 
ee Who would not wish to see a Botanic Garden established in a climate like 
that of Bishopstowe ? There, for example, are at this moment flourishing the 
various Californian species of Ceanothus (as mentioned in another part of this 
number, Tab. 4664), the blue-flowered ones, no doubt, with their glossy per- 
ennial foliage, more agreeable to the eye than the Paulownia. A Eucalyptus 
(supposed to be eight years old) is twenty feet high. Juniperus Bermudiana 
(the pencil Cedar) thrives well in the open lawn. The orange-scented Pitio- 
sporum, eight feet high and ten feet across, flowered at Christmas, and again more 
profusely in spring. The undermentioned trees, only two years old, have attained 
the following size :— 
Ft. In. 
Juniperus Lambertiana ...... 60S Wendie SEMpeTVITENS. ... ++ 
macrocarpa........ 8 0 Chamacyparis thurifera ... 
Bedfordiana ...... 3-8 Cupressus funebris .....+ ++ 
