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time I shall be glad to have yi)U call on me. 

 Again thanking you for writing me so fully, 

 I am, ' Your.s truly. 



J. E. McNkil, 



RiHiilinnsIrr So. Ciilifornia A*. A'. 

 Lo3 Anpeles. Cal.. Aun. 1 llh. UtOli. 



To Mr. John V. r.uowN: 



Within the past month I have written to 

 all the i>eo|)le to whom your society sent 

 seeds of the catalpa tree, and havt- replies 

 from most of them. 



Seventeen different trials were made in as 

 many parts of our colony and only one re- 

 ported a failure. Two had trees eaten by 

 slugs, and all the rest are fairly successful. 

 The Dominion Forestry Department have de- 

 cided to plant the catalpa pretty heavily this 

 spring. They have 1,< »()0 two-year-old trees. 

 I have also a letter from a government biol- 

 ogist and he wishes a few pounds of seed. 

 I shall want a quantity more. 

 Yours truly, 



R. H. McCallum. 

 Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, July 18, 1902. 



This letter shows how far-reaching the 

 influence of our Society has been. 



FROM A RAILWAY .-SUPERINTENDENT IN 

 NEW YORK. 



" I have heard of the catalpa tree, and it strikes 

 me that if it will endure the climate of Pennsylvania 

 and progres.^ in its mountainous soil we could make 

 Kood use of it indeed. I shall be very glad if you 

 will furnish me some information concerning its use- 

 fulne.ss, its character, the .soil it is adapted to, the 

 durability of the timber and the merits generally of 

 the tree." 



The majority of these questions are fully answered 

 in Bulletin No. 1 : The ('atal[>a. The tree is growing 

 very satisfactorily in Pennsylvania, standing the 

 climate perfectly well, but as elsewhere in elevated 

 regions or northern latitudes, but one variety of the 

 catalpa, and that upecinxa, is hardy. While better 

 results may be expe<teil in alluvial soils, rich lands, 

 and under good culture, yet it compares favorably 

 with other trees. In mountain lamls, rough and diffi- 

 cult to cultivate, any tree will be of slow growth. 



The requirements of the mines in Penn.sylvania 

 for timbers, will always be such as to make a demand 

 for small sized, durable and strong trees. There is 

 no good reason why the cataljia will not supjily this 

 demand in an economical manner — certainly in much 

 less time than oak, pine, chestnut or other native trees. 



Where railway and mining companies own large 

 tracts of land, from which the timber has been re- 

 moved, I do not know of any better use to which il 

 can be placed, than to plant the catalpa tree, with a 

 principal object of obtaining mine timbers. 



MANAGEMENT OF CATALPA TREFS. 



Ki'iTDK .\khokI('1'i.tuke : My caUilpa trees, jilantiMl 

 last year, do not seem to be straight enough. Kindly 

 advise me how to treat them. 



We have cultivated our trees, planting corn between 

 the rows, both this year and last, and by comparison 

 with others which have not been taken such good care 

 of and which were planted at the same time ours 

 were, we find that our trees have made much more 

 satisfactory growth than those. 



H. ('. R. 



Fort Wayne, Ind., .July 31. 



Any time after the leaves fall in autumn cut the 

 trees off near the ground. In the spring several 

 shoots will start to grow from the stump ; rub off all 

 but one for each tree, the force in the roots will push 

 this one shoot upwards rai)idly and it will be straight. 



The cut shows a tree which was five inches diameter 

 when cut down and the resulting growth of six 

 months reached a diameter of three inches and 

 height of si.\teen feet. Each leaf was two feet 

 across. The tree stood on the grounds of J. L. 

 Ebner, Vincennes, Ind. 



Governor Furnas, of Nebraska, writes : " Mr. 

 Brown, I can beat your catalpa tree, I have one 

 eighteen feet." 



Six montlis old catalpa. 



