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" 67 years later, although all their companions in the forest had 

 ^disappeared long before. Undecayed fence-posts believed to 

 'J have been continuously in the ground for more than half a century 

 || demonstrate, too, the remarkable duration of the wood of this 

 "Catalpa." Mr. B. Landreth, president of the Pennsylvania 

 forestry Association, stated in 1888 that he had in his possession a 

 piece of gate-post which had stood in place 100 years and was 



still in a oerfent stat.A nf nroaoi.OTt;nn (a.r.~>A^ » M j r* * iocs 



p. 500). 



{Garden 



'difolia 



* Tir • *?*%v u *«* iimauiiB moist rertne situations in the States 

 ot Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. 

 Under forest conditions it grows 100 feet, occasionally 120 feet, 

 mgn, but in open situations where the branches have room for 



fiw ♦ f Pme ^ i* attains t0 onl y half those heights. The 

 nvatp w-^ S i are 4 > feet in dia meter. The blade of the leaf is 

 lnrJ 1 7 ° ng V^ ring a P ex and frequently more than one foot 



of ?h/ JL? ln ? - es broad ; the p etiole is about half the len g th 



folia™ ??•; i 1S a Very hana some tree in regard to both its 

 whSe M n S ^ wers ' the la tter being 2h inches across with a 



uA ?K n ^ COr0l . la bl ° tched With >'" ellow and 8 P otted with 

 see f sentlv pi/ sp l? lmens in K ^ were raised in 1880 from 



o ' ev^^rs? 1 * ^ ^ they have flowered atmually 



fniia o * Ti T uy ea8Uy b0 confounded i 

 /o*m, a well-known ornamental tree that 



gardens 



dift 



if/noniae- 



;ivated in 



Besides 



smaller statu™ ;* - ulu , v * , w ' »»;«»w in its slower growth and 

 Cring f e t e » tf £ ^V* ^W^ed by its shorter, less 

 profusely spotted flJ ^iT^ > )anicle8 > its 8I » aller > more 



of lit e value as a timS ? ^ tMni ? er Walls of the f ruit ' lt is 

 large planting of IST*? 66 com P ared with G. cordi folia and if 



taken ?o obtain the seed true" "*" contem P la ^ d > car( should be 



'difolia 



although coarse-orainpri i • , lgnfc in weight and colour, and 



fine polish and C be vtT^l ^ n ° r Stron *> U takes a 

 Millions of trees havp iJ i f ° r furnit ^e and cabinet work. 



others in the United StJ 1 p1 ^ by railwa r companies and 

 valued there fo • matin* ^ especially in the west. It is highly 



durability when in contac? w!?h fi ee P er8 , on a ccount of its great 

 superior tn 'Wu.J ™, ntact with the earth. In this respect it is 



White 



sound a grip for the ho it a C«i"T V aoes not atford 8 ° firm an,: 

 the < White 1 Oak' doe £ din S d °wn the rail to the sleeper ai 



fencing, telegraph poles,' & c 1S VeTJ U8eful for g ate -posts 



be'of tny Talue fo "oreVnl T* - M *° Whether this tree i8 Iikel y to 

 say at once that the ^l?jf * 1D f "? the British l8 les. We may 

 ^^^vebeentolh^ff^^ 6 .^ KeW to enquirers on this 

 Catalpa can be grown for nnnVf a? ver y improbable that this 

 them from devoting land an . t £*? ?° Untr y' and to d '""""de 

 other than an exp^^li™ ,f **£*• to its cultivation on any 

 he South of Eng and a lw1f\ li 1S certainly quite hardy in 

 ast 25 years quite unintr-eT R h f . withfltootl the\v inters of the 

 trees at Kew, WverXno t * 2? V ° eS ttot 8™ fast. The 



, ao not give a fa,r idea of its capabilities 



