DECIDUOUS TREES. 
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years in winter, until the roots permeate largely below the reach of 
frost, there is little doubt that paulownias of noble size may be 
grown as far north as around the shores of Lake Erie. Yet we 
would not omit mulching at any age of the tree. 
The form of the paulownia is squarish-oblate. Fig. 132 repre¬ 
sents a specimen growing in Mount Moriah Cemetery, near Philadel¬ 
phia, and is a good illustration of the usual character of the tree. The 
sketch was made in September, at which time the upright spikes 
of seed-vessels on the tree were conspicuous and ornamental. The 
trunk of this specimen is sixteen inches in diameter, its height 
thirty feet, and the branches cover a space fifty feet in diameter. 
There is a much larger but less perfect specimen in the home- 
grounds of S. B. Parsons, Esq., at Flushing, L. I.; and perhaps 
still finer ones elsewhere which we have not seen. The branches 
of the paulownia are few in number, long and strong, diverge right- 
angularly, are disposed to spread laterally, and invariably turn 
upwards at their extremities. The bark is rather smooth on young 
trees, dark colored, and furrows with age. The leaves are pointed 
heart-shaped, a very dark green color, without gloss, and, on old 
trees, from ten to fifteen inches in length. They appear late in the 
spring, but retain themselves well upon the tree until hard frosts. 
The blossoms are formed in large upright panicles on the extremities 
of the shoots, are silghtly fragrant, and appear early in May. They 
are trumpet-shaped, and of a purplish color. 
THE MULBERRY. Morns. 
The mulberry is one of those species of trees with rapid succu¬ 
lent growth, and large leaves, which are apt to become spasmodi¬ 
cally popular, from the readiness with-which these qualities aie 
appreciated ; and then to “ fall from grace ” with a reaction against 
them disproportioned to their faults. The speculative rage for the 
Moms multicaulis , a variety of the white mulberry, which became 
one of the wildest manias on record nearly forty years ago, is now 
almost forgotten; and forms one of the curious facts in the history 
of speculations associated with the great South Sea scheme, the tulip 
