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Axtell, Charleston, Mo.: "Catalpa, in South-eastern Missouri, 

 is found native only in heavy, stiff soil, subject to overflow, 

 though it tli rives well when planted in dry places." 



A. M. Chapman, Apalachicola, Florida, writes: "Catalpa 

 grows here, hut is too small a tree for any useful purpose." 



J. 11. Foster, Pratt County, Kansas: "Catalpa seedlings 

 stand the dry weather very well." 



James Hell. I'llin, Illinois: "I took from the forests, eatal pa 

 trees two years old. in 1869, one and a half inches at the ground 

 and planted on high hill land, in 1878 they measured twenty- 

 four to twenty-eight inches six feet from the ground. They 

 had but little root when planted." 



K. P. Morev, Sterling, Kansas, "Planted catalpa seed May 

 25th, that made a fine growth of two feet high and three- 

 fourths of an inch in diameter. 



Robert \V. Furnas: "My grove of six thousand catalpas 

 three years old are from ten to fourteen feet high. Twelve 

 years ago t set out quite small catalpas, for shade, ahout six 

 feet high. They now measure forty-one inches in circum- 

 ference." 



Prof. T. J. Hurrill, Crbana, Illinois: <k I have just measured 

 a common eatal pa of nineteen year's growth, grown in ordinarv 

 prairie soil, and find sixteen and one-half inches across the 

 stump. The last twelve years it increased over fourteen 

 inches in diameter. 1 ' 



J. F. Tallant, Burlington, Iowa: "My catalpa trees two 

 years old are sound, even to extreme tip, having withstood (he 

 frost when the mercury was :\() below zero; though on a dry 

 clay hill, with thin soil, grew four feet the first year, in a very 

 dry season; the second, a rainy one, they grew so rapidly as to 

 be ten feet high and two inches diameter.' 1 



In Marshall County, Illinois, are several groves of Speciosa 

 catalpa, planted in the prairie twelve to sixteen vears airo. 

 They are all very straight, thrifty, handsome trees. 



The catalpa, seems wonderfully well adapted to the soil and 

 climate of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennesse, -Indiana, Illinois, Mis- 

 souri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, and grows luxuriantly on 

 most soils in these States. 



CO X C LUS1 O N. 



Such are a few of the facts I have gathered, and tried to im- 

 part to others. From them it seems to me clearlv shown that 

 tlu 1 catalpa occupies a prominent position among the trees 

 that should be cultivated. It can be so easilx propogated; so 

 readily cultivated over so large an extent of territory; it is so 

 rapid in its growth; it is of such economic value, not alone 



