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ARBORICULTURE 



various camping places and becom- 

 ing trees have established groves. 



An argument has been advanced by 

 a certain professional writer that seeds 

 will not germinate and produce trees 

 except those taken from the same 

 latitude. Just as well add longitude, 

 for vast quantities of seeds of Eucalyp- 

 tus and other semi-tropic trees are 

 gathered in Australia and sold all over 

 the world, wherever the climate is 

 warm enough. While seed from Ca- 

 talpa Speciosa, gathered by the writer 

 in South Western Indiana have made 

 millions of trees in New Zealand, in 

 Asia, Africa and all of Europe. 



A¥hat folly to say Catalpa seed must 

 be secured from far northern sources 

 for planting in New England, or from 

 southern localities when they are to 

 be grown in South Carolina. 



The only locality in the world where 

 the seeds can be had in purity is the 

 lower valley of the Wabash. Nature 

 did not plant them further north or 

 further south.. 



The same objector says the price is 

 too high. Very well, nature only can 

 be blameed for not making them more 

 abundant and more easily collected. 



The professor has the privilege of 

 buying cheep seeds and of producing 

 trees of like character. 



A DOZEN YEARS MORE OF SCRUB 

 CATALPA. 



The same gang who for many years havo 

 been spreading broadcast seed and trees of 

 Catalpa Bignonoides and hybrids, selling 

 them to the public for Catalpa Speciosa, 

 are still at work. 



A prominent eastern seed firm, with a 

 world-wide reputation, and in other respects 

 of high character, has purchased 100 pounds 

 of this seed from the most notorious dis- 

 tributor of impure seed — enough to produce 

 two million scrub Catalpa trees — and the 

 public will buy this stuff becau.se it is of 

 lowest price, only to find, after many years, 

 that the stuff is a disappointment in every 

 particular. 



It will be several years before the inferior 

 character can be known. Interest on invest- 

 ment, taxes, hopes for good trees, years of 

 patient waiting and all the labor, lost for 

 the sake of saving a few cents in the pur- 

 chase of genuine seed. 



A score of prominent firms are thus de- 

 ceiving the public by sending out seed and 

 trees which should be prohibited by law, 

 since they are not what they are sold for. 



Not a firm in the world will sell this stuff 

 under its proper name. One cannot buy Big- 

 nonoides Catalpa seed; it is all sold for 

 Speciosa. 



EIGHT HUNDRED ACRES IN PECANS. 



We beg to advise that a New edition of 

 "The Pecan Tree, How to Plant It, How to 

 Grow It, How to Buy It," (Illustrated,) is 

 now ready for distribution. If you own any 

 land or have any idea of planting any Pecan 

 trees during the coming winter or spring 

 you cannot fail to be interested. We have 

 a very superior lot of trees for sale this 

 season, but as the demand for them is 

 large we would appreciate an early order, 

 so that we may select and reserve them for 

 you. Those who have given the Pecan the 

 closest study aie today the heaviest invest- 

 ors. Many trees sold by us in 1903 and 1904 

 are bearing this year. Upon receipt of 

 postal card we will at once mail the book. 

 State number of trees wanted and quota- 

 tions will be sent. The G. M. Bacon Pecan 

 Co., Inc., DeWitt, Ga. 



OFFICE OF THE ENGINEER MAINTE- 

 NANCE OF WAY. 



Ft. Wayne, Ind., Dec. 11, 1906. 

 Mr. John P. Brown, Editor, Connersville, Ind. 



Dear Sir: 



Referring to an article in your last num- 

 ber of Arboriculture, in which you refer to 

 the use of concrete telegraph poles on the 

 Western division on the Pennsylvania lines 

 west of Pittsburg, I would be glad if you 

 note in your next number a correction stat- 

 ing that these poles were designed by J. B. 

 McKim, superintendent of the above divis- 

 ion. F. M. Graham, 

 Engineer M. of W. 



