IinONTIFlCATION Ol" CATALPA. Kjl 



Chairman: T desire to annnini the followinpr romniittprs before we 

 adjourn : 



COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF PREMIUM T>IST. 

 The committee to revise the premium list will me'^t at the Lindell 

 Hotel to-night at 7:30. This committee will consist of A. J. Brown. C. H. 

 Green, C A. Marshall, T>. Henderson and C. H. Barnard. 



COMMITTEE ON RECOMMENDED IJST. 



Committee to revise the recommended list of fruits: G. A. Marshall, 

 J. R. Davison, C. H. Barnard, .1. A. Yager. A. .1. Brown, Peter Youngers. 

 H. S. Harrison, .1. E. Atkinson and L. M. Russell. 



Chairman: This last named committee is to meet to-morrow evening. 

 The first named committee is to meet this evening, so they may report 

 tomorrow. We will now adjourn until o'clock tomorrow morning. 



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1911, 9 A. M. . 



Meeting called to order with Second Vice-President Ed Williams in 

 the chair. 



Chairman The first thing on our program is a paper by Mr. A. .1. 

 Brown, of Geneva, on the subject: "Identification of Oatalpa." 



Mr. Brown spoke as follows: 



IDENTIFICATION OF CATALPA. 



A. J. BROWN, GENEVA. 



I think it was three or four years ago in a board meeting this mat- 

 ter regarding the confusion in catalpas was brought up. This subject 

 should have been worded a little differently. I was asked to look the 

 matter up and I have been two or three years doing it and have done 

 it very poorly and needed to go a whole lot further than I have done, 

 but what I have found and concluded I will tell you. My naper of neces- 

 sity is very brief because it does not deal with anything except a feM^ 

 varieties. 



Bailey, in his Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, names and 

 describes only four species of catalpa that are hardy in this part of the 

 North Temperate Zone, namely, Speciosa, Bignonioides, Kaempferi and 

 Teas Japan Hybrid. Oi." these we are interested in only the first two. 

 Speciosa and Bignonioides. These two have been planted and are now 

 growing over all of the eastern half of Nebraska. They are so nearly 

 alike when .■^mall that it is very dillicult if not impossible to tell the 

 one from the other, but as the trees get larger there is a growing dif 

 ference which becomes more marked as the trees get older, yet in spite 

 of this difference it is difficult for one who has not observed them- 



