Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
not advisable, having the slight additional demerits of 
budding late in spring, and shedding its leaves quite 
early, littering the ground with their large withered 
forms. The small-leaved and the European species 
are more desirable, and they are scarcely distinguish- 
able, the main difference being a very slight variation in 
the small flower, which will only be seen upon close 
inspection. The flowers are cream-white and quite 
pretty, but not very conspicuous, curiously attached to a 
long wing that flies away with the seed in the fulness of 
time. Their delightful fragrance lures the bees, and the 
honey-fame of Hybla resulted from the abundant lindens 
on its slopes. 
CaTaLpa.—Catalpa is the Indian name of our most 
tropical - looking tree, with perhaps the exception of 
some of the magnolias. Chiefly a denizen of the South 
it is thoroughly hardy in the Northern States, and one 
of the most generally cultivated in park and lawn. It 
must be planted singly amid small-leaved trees, as its 
own immense leaf is clumsy when thickly massed ; but a 
better foil for locust, elm, and white birch could not be 
imagined. With tropical laziness, it is one of the very 
last to show signs of life in spring, other trees being in 
full leaf and often past their flowering, before the ca- 
talpa bestirs itself; but its foliage is retained well into 
the fall, and its late flowering, in the last of June and in 
July, which is quite a brilliant affair, helps to lengthen 
out the inflorescent period of our trees. In our latitude 
its figure is commonly low, spreading, and exceedingly 
ungraceful. Like an ungainly individual most catalpas 
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