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ARBORICULTURE. 



tween the good and the bad. The reader can 

 find the same difference shown in a valuable 

 bulletin on the hardy catalpa published in 1902 

 by the Kansas State Agricultural Experimental 

 Station (Bulletin 108). 



To show the reader the vast range over 

 which the fraud prevails, I will give a list of 

 the States from which the spurious seeds came, 

 and if any one desires the name or names of 

 any house or houses selling such seed, if he will 

 write me he shall be informed. 



There are a few of the seedhouses making 

 an honest effort to reform. They can drop the 

 catalpa feature of their business, as one or two 

 houses have already done. There can be no re- 

 form until trade conditions are changed. The 

 professional seed picker must be dropped from 

 the catalpa list. He can gather hickory nuts 

 and white-oak acorns acorns honestly, but he 

 can not gather Catalpa spcciasa honestly at 

 the prices fixed heretofore. Nurserymen must 

 either pick their own seed or know absolutely 

 who did it and where it was done, which will 

 be difficult. The situation demands study, de- 

 termination and nerve. Some strong seedhouse 

 should make a bold dash and shatter the pres- 

 ent system to shreds. The forest tree, seed and 

 nursery business is about to become one of the 

 most important and gigantic in the country, 

 with Catalpa speciosa in the lead, and the men 

 in it should square themselves for it. 



The attention of the people of Colorado has 

 l)een called to the Catalpa spccinsa by the State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, and it stands 

 every tree-planter in hand to exercise extreme 

 caution as to where and of whom he procures 

 his stock. Every nurseryman between here and 

 the Atlantic Ocean will embrace you, fall on 

 your neck and assure you that his stock is pure. 



If you have any regard for the years of your 

 life and do not wish to waste them raising 

 worthless trees, then before you buy of any- 

 body, advise with the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, or with John P. Brown, Connersville, Tnd., 

 who, by the way, is doubtless the best-posted 

 man as to catalpa now residing on this planet, 

 and the safest man of whom to buy either seed 

 or seedling. 



This article is not an advertisement, nor is 

 it a bid for commissions from any one. The 

 writer is not in the commission business. On 

 such a score he owes no man anything; never 

 has and never will ; nor will any man owe the 

 writer a penny for anything he may ever say 



on this subject. But, dear reader, the Ameri- 

 can people are under profound and lasting ob- 

 ligations to John P. Brown and to General 

 Palmer, the latter of Colorado Springs, as pres- 

 ident and secretary of the International Society 

 of Arboriculture, for what they have done to 

 prepare the way for the new era in arboricul- 

 ture now dawning, and to clear the path for the 

 triumph of Catalpa speciosa, which, when freed 

 from its environment of fraud, will be found 

 the most valuable all-around utility tree in the 

 United States. 



THE PASSING OF THE HICKORY. 



The manufacturers of many varieties of tools, 

 agricultural and other, find themselves facing a 

 serious calamity in the rapid disappearance of 

 that most valuable of American hard woods, 

 the hickory. For certain uses, like ax helves 

 and hammer handles, almost no satisfactory 

 substitute can be found. One of the hardest, 

 it is naturally one of the slowest-growing trees, 

 and many years must elapse, if plantings are 

 undertaken, before the trees can be made avail- 

 able for timber. Some can yet be found in 

 Missouri and in parts of other States in the 

 same latitude, Init from New England, New 

 York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky. INIicliigan 

 and Wisconsin the hickory has almost dis- 

 appeared. Yet not long ago it was burned as 

 the best of firewood ! — thousands of cords every 

 w inter. 



The nuts, too! how the "shcllbarks" are 

 missed! — Excliaiisc. 



At a meeting of the American Paper and 

 Pulp Association, held at the Waldorf-Astoria 

 Hotel. New York City, on February 7th, 1Q07, 

 the resolutions which are given below were 

 read and adopted : 



" Rcsol:'cd. That this Association calls upon 

 all pulp manufacturers in the United States to 

 adopt, to the fullest extent possible, conserv- 

 ative methods in lumbering according to the 

 approved principles of the science of forestry; 

 and, further 



"Resolved. That this Association urges State 

 governments to adopt more efficient means for 

 the prevention of forest fires. 



"Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions 



