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Late Flowering Catalpas. — In this country, the catalpa 

 trees are usually done flowering by the middle of July, but 

 according to Nature Notes they flower a month or more later 

 in England. Several trees are reported as blooming the first 

 week in September. 



An Albino Calopogon. — Three years ago I found a 

 pure white flower of Liinodorum tuherosiini (Calopogon). I 

 have never found one since nor have I ever read of an albino 

 form occurring in this species. Does anyone else know of 

 one? — Mary E. Hatch, Cambridge, Mass. 



Peanuts A Foot Long. — The Garden Magamne does 

 make some most astonishing breaks in its botanical informa- 

 tion. In the October number it is stated that the long seed- 

 pods of Catalpa speciosa look like peanuts and scatter seeds 

 all winter and that the tree is not as showy as C. bignonoides. 

 This statement is quite true except that the pods have not the 

 slightest resemblance to peanuts, the seeds are not scattered 

 until spring-, and the tree is the showiest of our native catal- 

 pas, — at least in the region where the catalpas are native. 



Seeds of Carolina Poplar. — Of late years a hardy and 

 very rapid species of poplar has been extensively planted un- 

 der the name of Carolina poplar. Some contend that this is 

 a separate species of Populus but most nurserymen are con- 

 vinced that it is merely the staminate form of our common 

 Cottonwood of the Middle West. It is well known that the 

 male and female trees of this species differ considerably in 

 the form of the leaves. According to the Garden Magamne the 

 Carolina poplar is objectionable because of the "silky pappus 

 shed in summer," but if, as the nurserymen aver, this is a male 

 Cottonwood it is a little difficult to see where it gets that 

 silky pappus to shed. If any of our readers know of a seed- 

 bearing Carolina poplar we would be glad to hear from them. 



