ARBORICULTURE 177 



Forest Nursery Company. 



Catalpa Speciosa. they are two or three inches high, when 



Connersville Ind. the weeds are pulled from the row and 



'.1^0 Our Tatrons : the middles hoed. This latter process 



In answer to those who ask the ques- should be kept up until the trees are 

 tion "How do you grow Catalpa strong enough to stand a few clods hit- 

 speciosa ?" we write this letter, and it ting them, which shows that they "are 

 should be adhered to just so far as the ready for the cultivator, but never en- 

 planter sees fit. We write from our own tirely let up on hand weedine until every 

 experiences ; other people have other weed in the nursery is lying in the sun 

 experiences in doing the same thing, but to dry. 

 in general they arc the same. _ It is best to go over them with the cul- 



Preparation of the Soil. — The ground tivator every few weeks during the sum- 

 should be broken in the fall so that it "ler, not only to keep down the weeds 

 will be loose and dry, ready to be pre- bi-it to loosen the ground, 

 pared for planting early in the spring. I^igging", Etc. — In the fall when the 

 This is not necessary in order to grow leaves drop off, the trees should be taken 

 trees, but it gives them an earlier start, i-ip> tied in bunches of 100 and heeled in 

 which is very essential, on account of some loose earth for the winter. If they 

 dry weather later in the season. need another year in the nursery they 



As soon as practicable after spring can be replanted, but if intended for for- 



opens, pulverize the soil as much as pos- est planting, one year is sufficient, 



sible without heavy tramping. The ground in which you intend to 



Planting the Seed. — When the ground P^ant the yearlings should be plowed in 



is thoroughly prepared, lay it off in rows the fall and the trees planted early the 



four feet apart, if you intend cultivating next spring. 



with horse cultivators, otherwise three }^ there are any further questions along 



feet is enough. This can be done with this line we will be glad to do our best 



a garden rake or other light instrument, in answering them, 



the main object lieing to rake a little With best wishes we are 



furrow about an inch deep and several Yours very truly, 



inches wide, into which the seeds can be FOREST NURSERY CO., 



dropped twenty or more to the foot, if Walter P. Brown, Manq,ger. 



planted on a hillside the rows should be 



made across the slope, for if the water is Hotel del Coronado^ 



permitted to run down the rows it will Coronado Beach, California, 



soon carry away the seeds or even the E- S. Babcock^ Manager. 



small trees. February 25, 1903. 



Covering. — The covering in Nature is Jolm P. Brown, Esq. 

 only a few leaves or a very little soil, but Dear Sir : — I have read with a great 

 that is in the forest where the -rotten c'eal of interest several numbers of Ar- 

 leaves hold the moisture. In the open liORicuLTURE. I was born in Southern 

 garden or field the cover should be as Indiana. Had thousands of catalpa 

 much like the forest as possible. For trees cut for telephone poles in the Wa- 

 this reason we rake over the seeds just bash Valley in '80 and '^2. I remember 

 enough soil to keep them damp until the planting of catalpa trees alongside 

 they germinate and get started to grow- tlie old Evansville & Terre Haute Rail- 

 ing, road, but at that time I did not know 



How to Cultivate! — About two or there were two varieties, 



three weeks after planting, sometimes Am living out in Southern California 



longer, the little trees begin to come now, and would like to experiment with 



through the ground. The zveeds are up the proper kind of tree, 



already, but if they are pulled the tender Yours very truly, 



little trees break off. so they are left until E. S. Babcock, President. 



