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form and foliage, even while young. It commences flower- 
ing when about ten or fifteen feet high, and we can recom- 
mend it with confidence to the amateur of choice trees as 
worthy of a conspicuous place in the smallest collection. 
The only species known is Virgilia lutea. It was first 
described by Michaux, and was sent to England, about the 
year 1812. Quite the finest planted specimens within our 
knowledge are growing in some of the old seats in the 
northern suburbs of Philadelphia, where there are several, 
thirty or forty feet in height, and exceedingly beautiful, both 
in their form and blossoms. A small specimen on our lawn, 
eighteen feet high, blossoms now very profusely. 
The Paulownia Tree. Paulownia . 
Nat. Ord. Scrohpulriacese. Lin. Syst. - — ■ 
The Paulownia is an entirely new ornamental tree very 
lately introduced into our gardens and pleasure-grounds 
from Japan, and is likely to prove hardy here, wherever 
the Ailantus stands the winter, being naturally from the 
same soil and climate as that tree. It has already attained a 
great notoriety in the gardening world of the other conti- 
nent ; and from a cost of four or five guineas a plant, it is 
now reduced to as many shillings, being very readily pro- 
pagated. In the north of France, it is perfectly hardy, and 
will, no doubt, prove equally so here, south of the latitude 
of Boston. With our own plants being newly received, we 
have not yet had the opportunity of testing this point. 
The Paulownia is remarkable for the long size of its 
foliage and the great rapidity of its growth. The largest 
leaves are more than two feet in diameter, slightly rough or 
