for its durability, when exposed to moisture, but also for all 

 purposes for which white walnut and white cork pine, the two 

 woods that season the quickest and keep their place best, may 

 ho used, that I do not know any tree that presents higher 

 claims for general cultivation. From the experiments I have 

 made, there is no one tree 1 would as soon use for the entire 

 structure of a passenger car, including sills, plates, posts, and 

 the entire frame work, also for outside and inside finish, as 

 catalpa. 



What 1 have said, 1 think, shows that the tree is worth a 

 most careful study. There is very much that needs to be 

 known about it. I have arranged with horticulturists of thir- 

 ty years experience with catalpa, to visit several places where 

 it grows native in the forests, also some groves of catalpa grown 

 from the seed, to gather such facts as may guide in its success- 

 ful cultivation. 



'Any one having any facts or information pertaining in any 

 way to catalpa., will confer a favor on the public if they will 

 communicate them to me. There has been such a demand for 

 a pamphlet I published last January, on the catalpa, that the 

 edition is nearly exhausted. I hope to reprint a portion of 

 this with such other facts and information as I may obtain up 

 to that time. 1 wish to make this as full and complete as may 

 be, for the benefit of the public, and therefore ask its aid in 

 gathering these facts and this information. 



