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in a collection. The best Bartram specimen 

 is about forty feet high and four feet in cir 

 cumference. 



The catalpa will grow in any soil, but pre 

 fers one rather moist. It may be propagated 

 by seeds sown early in spring, in a light 

 loamy soil, a little shaded. Cover them 

 very lightly. They will soon vegetate. The 

 sooner they are planted into the nursery 

 rows the better. They frequently die down 

 a little in winter, but soon lose this weakness. 

 They may also be struck from cuttings of last 

 year s wood, taken off early in the spring, 

 and put in a bed of sandy loam. Strong plants 

 can be raised sooner this way than by seeds. 



CEDRUS, Barrelier. Nat. Ord. Pinacese. 

 Moncecia, Monadelphia, Linn. Differs from 

 Larix in being evergreen, and in the carpels 

 separating from the axis. 



1. C. DEODARA, Roxburgh. Leaves in 

 bundles, sharp, somewhat 3 -angled, stiff, of a 

 bluish-green, covered with a glaucous bloom. 

 Cones four to five inches long, three to four 

 broad. Deodar. Native of Nepaul. 



This is said to grow one hundred and fifty 



