PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS 89 



A healthy young tree is growing in the flower 

 garden at Regent's Park, where, though the soil is 

 stiff and unkindly, it has developed its greenish-yellow 

 flowers in great abundance. 



It is a tree of wide-spreading growth with deciduous 

 leafage, and armed with spines along the branches. 

 The bright, shining green leaves are ovate, pointed, 

 and 3 inches long, the rather inconspicuous flowers 

 being green tinged with yellow and succeeded by small 

 yellow fruit not unlike that of the Seville orange. 



Pagoda Tree 



(Sophora japonicd) 



CHINA and Japan, 1763. A large deciduous tree, 

 with elegant pinnate foliage and clusters of green- 

 ish-white flowers produced in September. Leaves 

 dark-green, and composed of about eleven leaflets. S. 

 japonica pendula is one of the most constant weeping 

 trees, and valuable for planting in certain well-chosen 

 spots on the lawn or in the park, and specially valu- 

 able for resisting the impurities of a town atmosphere. 

 There are good specimens in the central and other 

 parks. 



Paulownia imperialis 



SO few trees of the Paulownia have been planted 

 in London that its suitability or otherwise for 

 cultivation cannot be definitely stated, though some 

 specimens in Regent's Park have attained to a large 

 size and flower freely. The largest is growing on a 

 mound in the flower garden and has a well-developed 

 stem that girths 5 feet 10 inches at a yard from 



