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PAULOWNIA 1MPERIALIS. 
to our climate for a few years, it may finally become as valuable an acquisition to 
our pleasure-grounds as the Catalpa. 
In planting it out here, it should be placed in a dry and somewhat open 
position, and a prepared loamy soil, the latter being shallow and well-drained. 
Perhaps it will be advisable to cover it partially for the first two or three years, 
especially if the autumn should have been unfavourable to the ripening of its wood ; 
and it may afterwards be left quite unsheltered. In covering it at all, however, 
provision should be made for giving it a great deal of air, and, indeed, for opening 
it altogether on those days when no danger from cold exists. Above all things, the 
roots should be kept as dry as practicable in winter, that the plant may not begin 
growing too early in the spring. Its propagation may be carried on by cuttings. 
The Chinese call it Too or Hak-too, and the Japanese Kiri. It is named 
Paulownia by Dr. Siebold, in honour of the hereditary Princess of the Netherlands, 
who was one of the daughters of the Emperor of Russia. 
