WESTERN CATALPA (C. speciosa, Engelm.) is hardier than 

 the Southern species, and it grows in more upright form, 

 promising more and better timber in a given time. It has 

 stout, thick-walled fruits, thicker, more pointed leaves, and 

 fewer flowers, less gayly spotted, in a cluster. This tree ranges 

 in bottom lands from lower Indiana and Illinois to Missouri, 

 Arkansas, and Texas. It occurs in western Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. This is the best species for the West. 



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