Catalpa 
Syringifolia 
A) ARBORETUM NOTES 
BIGNONIACE. 
CATALPA SYRINGIFOLIA. 
Sims, Botanical Mag., v. 27. t. 1094. 
Loudon, v. 3. 1261. 
Two planted by my father, in 1826; the one on 
the east side of the pleasure ground, the other in 
the western part of the arboretum. ‘This latter is 
now a large and very fine tree, branching almost 
from the base, and spreading out its branches on 
all sides in a circle, sweeping the ground with their 
smaller ramifications, so that, when in leaf, it 
forms a complete and beautiful dome of brilliant 
verdure. The trunk divides at a small height from 
the ground into three principal stems, each about 
three feet round. The circumference of the space 
covered by its branches which sweep the ground 
almost all around it, is about forty-three yards. 
(measured roughly by stepping, January, 1870). 
Michaux’s remark as to the comparative 
smoothness of the bark is by no means applicable 
to either of our Catalpa trees; on the main trunk 
and principal limbs the bark is rough and much 
(though not deeply) cracked, with a tendency to 
scale off; and is much covered with lichens. 
This fine tree has for many years past, flowered 
every summer, and in general very abundantly ; 
only in 1861 in consequence of the injury it had 
suffered from the severity of the previous winter, 
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