It is quite common upon the trees about Vincennes, Indiana, and it 

 has migrated to those at Flora, Illinois forty -three miles west, where 

 eatalpas \\ere planted by Mr. L. B. Parsons, President of the Ohio and 

 Mississippi Railway, who was unwilling to have the trees ruined, and 

 destroyed the insects by applying Paris (Ireen and water with a garden 

 syringe. 



After seeking for sometime in vain for information as to the scientific 

 classification of this insect, which is entirely unknown to our region, the 

 needful information was promptly supplied by Professor C. V. Riley, 

 United States Entomologist at Washington. District of Columbia, who 

 identified it as the Sjjftiiu: CataJpa, of Boisduval. He says it is one of the 

 most beautiful of the tribe. 



The accounts of the Rooky Mountain Locusts' behavior when meeting 

 eatalpas on the plains, are quite contradictory, some correspondents de- 

 clare that the hoppers give this plant a wide berth, while others say that 

 they luxuriate upon the succulent leaves, and then eat the bark and 

 even the wood fiber of young plants. 



Before concluding this report, it may be well to remind the reader that 

 pains have been taken to point out that we have in America two dis- 

 tinct catalpa trees, one of which appears to be peculiarly western, and 

 that it is possessed of qualities that especially adapt it to our use in form- 

 ing artificial groves for economical purposes. It is superior in its habit 

 and in its hardiness. The timber of one may be equally durable as that 

 of the other, and may resemble it in every particular, and yet the tree- 

 planter may ask which will be more available for his purpose, when he 

 undertakes to grow the trees for practical application in the arts. 



Having distinctly set forth the differences that exist between them, 

 the writer leaves every one to make his own selection, but he desires to 

 impress upon the readers the propriety of their trying other trees in plan- 

 tations, also, and not to expect all excellence in any one kind. We have 

 a noble sylva, a rich inheritance of trees of many kinds, with properties 

 that adapt them to the various requirements of the arts of civilization, 

 and with characters and constitutions that adapt them to various soils, 

 climates and elevations. Some are peculiarly adapted to almost every 

 portion of our extended country. 



Think not, that we, who have been so much interested in the catalpa, 

 and who have so warmly introduced it to you, would recommend you to 

 plant nothing else; far from it, we plant many kinds and we advise you. 

 and all others, to use your own good judgment in the selection of the 

 several kinds that may be, and such as are supposed to be, best adapted 

 to your own conditions. 



Perhaps in the rich prairies of the west you may prefer to plant the 

 Cotton-woods, ftox-olders, White-willows, and similar trees of their class; 

 plant them, then, only plant trees; you will have the benefit of their 

 shade, shelter and fuel, and with these you have a preparation for more 

 extended sylviculture with a more extended range of varieties. In such 

 situations, you may feel assured that no trees will be likely to nuike 

 quicker returns nor of greater pecuniary value, than the one "which has 

 now been presented for your consideration The Western or Hardy 

 Catalpa. 



The greatest, the largest and most extensive plantations of forest trees 

 in our country must be made by the great railway corporations. Thev 

 will always need supplies for maintaining their lines; they can furnish 

 the necessary transportation from the several points of production to 

 those of consumption, and very many of them are at present the greatest 

 land holders. Surely ii is incumbent upon them to take a deep interest 

 in everything that relates to the subject of forestry, which will ere long 



