DECEMBER. 



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Europe, he planted in his grounds, more than half a century 

 ago, the rich collection which still exists and enriches and 

 adorns the grounds of the present owner. 



The Kolreuter/a paniculata, or Panicle-flowered Kolreu- 

 teria (fig. 30,) is a native of China, and, like other natives of 

 that country when transplanted to our own, suffer slightly 

 from an occasional severe winter, which injures the new 



30. THE KOLREUTERIA TREK. 



wood more or less, checking the growth of young trees, so 

 that for the first few years they make slow progress. The 

 Ailanthus and Paulownia are from the same country, and 

 though considered quite hardy, as they in reality are, and 

 forming fine large trees, they occasionally lose a portion of 

 their young wood, but soon replace it by a new and vigorous 

 growth. The Kolreuteria is of the same habit, but does not 



