186 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



and Boston ; in fact, I know of several flourishing, 

 good-sized specimens beside a hotel in the White 



Mountain region of New 

 Hampshire. The first tree 

 of this species planted in 

 New England stands on 

 Washington 

 Street, Hart- 

 ford ; it is over 

 ninety years 

 old.* The ca- 



Catalpa Leaf. 



talpa bean, I remember, long 

 years ago was surreptitiously 

 smoked by small boys ; wheth- 

 er it is to-day or not I do not 

 know, but the somewhat aro- 

 matic smell of a smoldering 



* Vide Trees and Tree Planting, by General J. S. Brisbin. 



