Catalpa 
syringifolia 
42 ARBORETUM NOTES, 
BIGNONIACEAt. 
This year (1869). they were all or nearly all 
beaten off by a furious gale of wind in October. © 
The other Catalpa tree, the one planted on the - 
east side of the pleasure ground,—being more 
enclosed and hemmed in by other trees, has 
grown more upright and toa greater height, but 
is by no means so fine a tree. From the same 
cause, it flowers sparingly, and has never yet 
borne fruit. In the summer of 1869, it has 
flowered more freely than I have ever known 
it to do before. The trunk grows at first quite 
upright, but divides at the height of only four or 
five feet from the ground, though the divided 
trunks are more upright in direction than those of 
the other tree; a little higher up it throws out its 
lowest side branches. 
There is a very large Catalpa tree in the 
garden of ‘‘ Rosebank” (belonging to Sir Montagu 
McMurdo), on the bank of the Thames at Fulham: 
According to a rough measurement made in 
August, 1873, the trunk is 103 feet round; and the 
space covered by the branches measures 63 feet’ 
in its largest diameter. 
