MISSOURL BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 163 
Description—Named in honor of Anna Paulownia, prin- 
cess of the Netherlands. Native of Central China. Tree 40 
feet high, with stout spreading branches forming a round or 
ovate head; leaves large, especially when annually pruned to 
the ground, broadly cordate-ovate, entire or occasionally 3- 
lobed, acuminate, pubescent above, tomentose beneath, 8-10 
inches long, upon long petioles; panicles 1 foot long; flowers 
fragrant, pale violet, 1-2 inches long, suggesting somewhat a 
foxglove or gloxinia in shape; pedicels and calyx densely 
rusty tomentose; calyx lobes short, rounded; seed-pod re- 
sembling a buckeye in shape, containing a large number of 
orbicular winged seeds. 
PLANT PRODUCTS IN INDUSTRY 
In this, the so-called age of industry, we fail to realize how 
large a part plant products play in our daily lives, and are 
inclined to overemphasize the importance of the brick and 
steel with which we are surrounded. The chemist and the 
engineer command universal respect because their part in the 
development of civilization is well known, but the no less im- 
portant contributions of the botanist and the plant breeder 
are often overlooked. 
To bring the importance of plant products forcibly to the 
attention of his students, Prof. Oakes Ames, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, asked them to take a census of the advertising they 
saw. Such a census usually revealed the fact that an over- 
whelming majority of the commodities advertised were 
plant products. That this is also true in St. Louis may be 
shown from the following census taken recently of 123 bill- 
board and street-car advertisements selected at random: 
Plant, prod cte ccs eens 88 
Animal producte. ie 8 
Mineral pro@uietaicnc et ek 5 
Personal services (banks, schools, ete.) .......... 22 
The plant products were distributed as follows: 
OO sccccssnsebee teens 21 Beverages ..... ee 6 
Soap es a 6 
OE 610) 8 (cs: 11 Chewing gum............... 6 
Furniture ................... (i ee eb 
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