74 CALENDAR OF FLOWERING 



Paulownia imperialis 



Is generally prevented from blooming by our lute 

 frosts, but by the seaside it will have a better chance 

 than inland, and when its large purple flowers appear, 

 which they will in May, their beauty, taken in com- 

 bination with the richness of the foliage, is indescribable. 

 It is deciduous, and in habit like a Catalpa, growing into 

 a tree some 30ft. high, and sometimes even more. It 

 can be raised in a cold frame from imported seed or 

 cuttings, and will grow vigorously in any ordinary 

 garden soil. 



Pavia alba 



Syn. Pavia macrostachya. 



Pavia flava 



(Sweet Buckeye), sometimes called jEsculus neglecta, 

 makes a round-headed tree about 20 ft. high that is 

 pretty in every way. Its flowers appear in May. 



Pavia macrostachya^ 



Sometimes called alba or parviflora, is certainly 

 one of the best flowering shrubs we have got, for it 

 will grow in any ordinary soil, though it prefers a rather 

 moist one, and if given plenty of room to spread about 



