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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
Some dwarf varieties of the catalpa have been found in Asia, 
which bid fair to be charming acquisitions to our stock of small 
trees or shrubs. The following are now growing in this country : 
Fig. 129. 
The Indian Catalpa. C. himalayensis ( C. iimbraculifera ? ). — - 
Fig. 129 represents a specimen of this species also growing in the 
grounds of Mr. Alfred Cope, Germantown, Pa. It is seven or 
eight feet high, and about ten feet broad. The crown is like a 
roof of leaves, laid with the precision of pointed slate , and the 
play of light on its golden-green head is beautiful. The leaves are 
about the size of those of the common catalpa. Though formal in 
its outline, it is at the same time of so unusual a form and style, 
that its novelty, or oddity, allies it to trees of picturesque expres- 
sion. Judging by this specimen, we would suppose that this vari- 
ety will never be much more than a great shrub, perhaps from ten 
to twenty feet high. It seems to be hardy in the neighborhood of 
Philadelphia, and, with thorough protection, will probably succeed 
as far north as the southern shores of the great lakes. It is well 
adapted, wherever it proves hardy, to form natural arbors or gate- 
way arches. 
The Catalpa Kempferi is similar to the above, except that it 
has smaller leaves and growth in all respects, and the foliage a 
little darker. The flowers resemble those of our native catalpa. 
Mr. Meehan considers it one of the best of trees for the same pur- 
poses suggested in the closing paragraph of the preceding descrip- 
tion. Quite hardy near Philadelphia. 
