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ARBORICULTURE. 



A CATALPA PLANTATION ONE YEAR OLD, MECHANICSBURG, OHIO 



Timber Planting by a Progressive Telephone 



Company. 



Mechanicsburg, ()., Feb. 10, 1907. 

 John P. Broii'u, CoiiiuvsvilU'. IiuL: 



Dear Sir — The photogra])!! of catalpa 

 trees I am sending you was taken in the 

 field of twenty-six acres, which I ])lanted 

 to catalpa in April, 1906. These trees 

 were one-year seedlings, and were planted 

 during the latter part of A]jril, 1906. 

 They were cut back to near the ground 

 after being planted, and, as the photo- 

 graph shows, some of them grew fully 



seven feet in height during their first 

 summer's growth. 



Some of these trees grew two inches in 

 thickness the first season, but the most of 

 them run from one to one and one-half 

 inches in diameter. 



Out of the twenty-six thousand trees 

 planted last spring, I lost less than twenty- 

 five trees. 



Last spring there were planted in this 

 immediate vicinity sixty-one thousand 

 and nine hundred catalpa trees, and this 



