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grower and, if properly pruned carries a 

 fine upright stocl\. I have been unable to 

 ascertain with regard to its endu.ing qual- 

 ities when put in the ground, although Ko- 

 reans have told me that it will last for many 

 years. The pods grow in large, branching 

 bunches — twenty or thirty in a bunch. I 

 send them on the chance that they may be 

 interesting to you. Will you be so kind as 

 to send me another package of seed such 

 as you sent last year? 



Yours very sincerely, 



J. E. Adams. 



Mr. J. E. Adams, Taikii, Korea. 



My Dear Sir: — 



Your letter of November 1, with 

 package of seed, has arrived. I have 

 sent a small package of Catalpa Speci- 

 osa seed for yourself and will send a 

 pound package also, which you may 

 distribute among your friends. 



The seed you send is a Chinese tree, 

 quite a number of which have been 

 distributed throughout our southern 

 states, "Paulonia Imperialls." In some 

 respects it resembles the catalpa fam- 

 ily, but sthl has no connection. The 

 Paulonia belongs to the Figwort fam- 

 ily, while catalpa is classed with the 

 Bignonoides. 



In leaf and flower the two species 

 are similar, but the Catalpa has white, 

 while Paulonia has purple flowers 

 Paulonia seed are in pods which stand 

 upright, while Catalpa seed pods are 

 pendant, shaped like cigars, and are 

 often called "lady cigars." 



The seed of Paulonia are extremely 

 minute, being winged. I return a few 

 of the seed of Paulonia taken from 

 your packet. 



The catalpa is hardy in any portion 

 of the United States, while Paulonia is 

 a subtropical tree, growing as far north 

 as Washington City, but seldom flow- 

 ering so far north. 



Wherever the Paulonia will grow 

 you can be assured of success with 

 Catalpa. 



Both trees grow rapidly. If you 

 can ascertain from natives anything in 

 regard to the use of the Paulonia wood, 

 duraljility, appearance, etc., I shall be 

 glad to know of it. The tree is merely 

 grown for ornament in the United 

 States. John P. Brown. 



DENUDING OF WOODED HILLS IN NEW 



ENGLAND AND SOUTH IS MENACE 



TO IMPORTANT SECTIONS. 



From Chicago Evening Post: 



Washington, Jan. 3. — Unless pressure from 

 the people is brought to bear the leaders of 

 the House may refuse to pass the bill estab- 

 lishing national forest reserves in the White 

 Mountains and in the southern Appalachian 

 range. The excuse of lack of time to put the 

 measure through at this session is being 

 urged by the leaders. The necessity for en- 

 acting the legislation is crying, but for 

 some inscrutable reason the congressional 

 chieftains do not seem to care to give heed. 

 Postponement will mean further unbridled 

 destruction of the forests and the threaten- 

 ed ruin of many industries. The country 

 shouUl demand that the bill be passed. 



"This measure has passed the UnitecT 

 States Senate unanimously; it has been rec- 

 ommended unanimously for passage by the 

 House committee on agriculture; the Presi- 

 dent is strongly for it; the majority of the 

 members of the House are believed to fa- 

 vor it — yet grave doubts exist as to whether 

 it will come to a vote." 



plea by Edward Everett Hale. 



Dr. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the 

 Senate, wrote recently: 



"With these eyes I have seen forests de- 

 molished in which were trees centuries old 

 and now the region is given over to sumach 

 ard blackberry bushes. It is no mere mat- 

 ter of botanical curiosity for which we are 

 pleading. It is the preservation of a water 

 suprly which affects five of the six New 

 Ens-land states. It also affects the very ex- 

 iste'ice of whatever makes the region at- 

 tractive to persons from every part of the 

 nation. It is easv to see, on mere econorhic 

 grounds, that the destruction of forests 

 has been the ruin of many a nation whic'j 

 di'^ pot have the wisdom to keep them." 



Dr. Hale wns writing specifically of the 

 White Mountains. Included in the measure 

 before Congress is a plan for a national re- 

 serve in the mountains of seven southern 

 states in which lumbering operations have 

 been conducted in such a manner as to show 

 a reckless disregard for future growth. It 

 was of this section that a forest service of- 

 ficial wrote: "A clean lumber job is seldom 

 seen." It is there that trees have been 

 felled without regard to the young growth; 

 that logs have been dragged out with mule 

 teams to the annihilation of seedlings, and 

 that tree tops and branches are left to rot 

 and to become breeding-places for swarms 

 of insects v/hich attack the still strug- 

 gling growth. 



