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measured 14 feet in circumference, or over 41 feet in diameter, 
one yard from the ground; and it will be noticed that the trunk 
The Paulownia also, I regret to say, is visibly decayed at the 
base and that this decay extends throughout most of the trunk 
was shown the past summer by the appeara a knothole 
far the center of the tree of a clustered fruit-body of the 
sulfur-colored polypore, which is a deadly of trees, causing 
a heart-rot fo ch there is no re: be on hort 
time before this disease will cause the destruction of the tree 
Id tr Id be missed many of our visitors and its 
removal a positive calamity to the birds that build 
in the lar; arger diene of ey ean as age residences. 
August, Id tenants. Aswi 
of bees had located in one of the hollow branches 20 feet or more 
had visited the Paulownia when in flower and knew of its possi- 
bilities! 
otanical name of the Paulownia is Paulownia tomentosa, 
tly 
sometimes called Paulownia imperialis, and it is appare the 
ly arborescent representative of the ort or foxglove family 
grown in Nor ica. About eight species are recognized 
the genus, all from China or Indo-China, but m them are 
little kn here and are probably less hardy than the common 
species. They are large edium-sized tr ith immense 
leaves sl terminal panicles of purple or nearly white 
a 
flowers resembling the foxglove in form. The genus was named 
