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are about three inches high, they may be transplanted into 

 rows, beds, borders, or, in short, wherever they are finally to 

 grow. If the season is favorable, they will grow to the height 

 of from three to six feet before the close of the autumn. Next 

 year, if the soil is deep, they will make shoots eight or ten feet 

 long. 



" When the Paulownia was first offered for sale in Europe, 

 about three years ago, it was advertised by the Brothers Ban- 

 man n, the great nurserymen of the Rhine, at from three to six 

 guineas per plant. From the rapidity with which the nursery- 

 men are propagating it now, in this country, we have no doubt 

 it may be bought next autumn, at wholesale, at about the same 

 price per hundred trees. 



" The parent tree, in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, has 

 already borne seeds, in considerable quantity ,'which have vege- 

 tated very regularly. The tree has not yet, to our knowledge, 

 flowered in this country, but will probably do so next spring. 

 As soon as the seeds are produced in abundance, we advise cul- 

 tivators to resort to them the best of all modes of propagat- 

 ing ornamental trees when it is possible to do so." 



PEONY. 



PcBonia moutan, and its varieties, are magnificent plants for 

 the front rank in the shrubbery ; for description of them, and 

 modes of culture, see Peeonia, under the head of Bulbous and 

 Tuberous Roots. See page 68. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Syringa. 



From Ptolemy Philadelpkus, King of Egypt. It is also 

 called Mock Orange. 

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