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PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS. — HOGS RUNNING AT LARGE. 
PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS. 
Extract from the Annals of the Royal Society 
of Horticulture of Paris, on the subject of the flow¬ 
ering of this new ornamental tree, imported from 
Japan, as reported by M. Newmann: 
“ I have the honor of informing the Royal Society 
of Horticulture, that many of the buds of the Pau- 
lownia Imperials, on the tree growing at the 
Museum of Natural History, which were formed 
the last autumn, and which consequently have sus¬ 
tained the rigor of the past winter, are at this date 
(April 29th) expanded into perfect flowers of a 
bright blue color, very much resembling those of 
the gloxinia caulescens. They are large and remain 
for many days. There are seven or eight combined 
in each erect panicle, around which they are sus¬ 
pended, and they exhale a sweet and agreeable 
odor. During the period when these flowers are 
developing their beauties, the foliage also expands, 
giving to this fine tree a magnificent appearance. 
It is a phenomenon altogether new for flower buds 
to be so well preserved during the winter, after 
having been so perfectly formed. The blue color 
of the flowers of the Paulownia is a peculiarity 
which will cause it to be greatly sought for by 
amateurs. This much admired tree, which grows 
with astonishing vigor, has formed shoots during 
the third year of its growth, more than ten feet in 
length, with leaves twenty inches in length, and 
twenty-two in breadth; and when growing in quite 
indifferent soil such as the Jardin du Roi. At Ver¬ 
sailles, Mr. Massey has planted some trees in peat 
soil, one of which has formed shoots thirteen feet 
in height in a single season. This tree is called in 
Japan 4 Kiri,’ and a genus has been formed of it 
under the title of Paulownia, in honor of her Impe¬ 
rial Highness, the hereditary Princess of Holland. 
“ It is not for the beauty of its flowers alone that 
this splendid tree has been dedicated to this Prin¬ 
cess, but it is for the additional circumstance that 
the leaf of the ‘ Kiri,’ adorned with triplicate 
branches of its flowers, has long served as the em¬ 
blem of the renowned hero ‘ Faikasama,’ who is 
still held in a the highest veneration by the inhabit¬ 
ants of Japan.” 
I send you the above translation, supposing it 
might be acceptable to many of your readers. 
Wm, R. Prince. 
Prince's Linncean Garden and Nurseries, ) 
Flushing, Dec. 10, 1845. j 
HOGS RUNNING AT LARGE. 
It is an old adage that “ wonders will never 
cease and certainly we have no stronger illustra¬ 
tion of the proverb, than is to be found in the 
almost universal practice of allowing swine to run 
at large. There ought to be a State law against it, 
and we would that it could be made a national one , 
that not a swine in the Union should be allowed to 
set his foot on other than his owner’s premises. 
Such a law, however, unless it was conlmed to the 
quadruped division of the species, might result in 
thinning off the population of some of the emporiums 
of politics and official distributions, and other places 
of frequent resort; yet it is probable, with an equal 
advantage to the public, as the restriction of “ the 
larger liberty ” of their bristly compeers. 
I can see no one advantage, even to the owner. 
in allowing a swine to go at large. His only re¬ 
sources are two—the garbage he may occasionally 
pick up, and the plunder he may secure from the 
neighbors’ fields, gardens or store-houses. The first 
will be just in proportion to the filth of the neigh¬ 
borhood ; yet it is unaccountable, that those who 
manufacture garbage, should not have it consumed 
by their own swine, and on their own ground. If 
it be good for anything, it is good for them there, 
and if not convenient to be fed at home, let it be 
converted into compost, or disposed of to their 
neighbors for feeding. 
As to the other resource, the plunder from their 
neighbors, this is of a perfectly piratical character. 
Any man who turns his swine into the road with 
the expectation,or even probability, of their intruding 
on another’s premises, may with more propriety go 
himself, and steal an equal quantity of grain, vege¬ 
tables, meal or pork. The last is altogether the 
most respectable and economical mode of accom¬ 
plishing a given object. This he does openly and 
above board, and takes only what can be judi¬ 
ciously used; while the other is taken by a sneaking, 
filthy, disgusting agent, who is sent on an errand, his 
owner is somewhat ashamed, or more probably 
afraid to undertake personally; and who, in the ac¬ 
complishment of his mission, gormandizes frequent¬ 
ly to his own injury, eating enough at once, to last a 
more considerate hog two or three days ; and like 
many of his biped kindred, trampling, soiling, and 
wasting what he cannot use. 
The annual expense of fencing some villages 
against hogs, and the injury done by them in spite 
of all hindrances, is several hundred dollars— 
enough to buy half the pork consumed by the inha¬ 
bitants ; and all this inconvenience is suffered and put 
up with, that some few hoggish individuals may al¬ 
low their brother swine to enjoy a free range. 
If there were any advantage to the owner in this 
practice, besides the robberies his swine accom¬ 
plish, there would be some compensation in it; but 
there is none. The hog that rambles abroad is sub¬ 
ject to injury from dogs, men, carriages, and loco¬ 
motives, while his gain is not equivalent, with all 
his filchings, to make up to bus carcass the waste of 
his extra ‘exercise. Any man who keeps a hog or 
hogs should, both by statute and public opinion, 
be compelled to “ circumscribe the area of their free¬ 
dom ” to their own pen, for his own interest, as well 
as for decency’s sake. So repugnant to a reflecting 
person’s feelings, is the result of a hog’s rambles in a 
neighborhood, that we have known an otherwise 
pretty and thriving village or town, deprived of some 
of its best occupants in consequence of being com¬ 
pelled to share its pleasant walks and shaded ave¬ 
nues with such company. Quirk. 
Preserving Poultry a,nd Game Fresh. —This 
delicious meat, and even small sheep, may be kept 
fresh two months of the winter, by first cooking, 
and then hanging them up to freeze in a cold room. 
Freezing makes the meat more tender, and it also 
partially absorbs the spices of the stuffing, and be¬ 
comes very delicious in its flavor in a few weeks. 
Poultry, &c., may be preserved by having the in¬ 
sides taken out, and charcoal dust put in their place, 
and then hung up as above; also by putting it 
down in cold lard. 
