The American Agriculturist, The Monthly Garden and Horticulturist, 

 The Cultivator and Country Gentleman, The Prairie Farmer, The 

 Scientific American, The Railway Age, The National Car Builder, 

 The Ohio Farmer, and The New York Tribune. Through the 

 notices made of the pamphlet, and the artieles on eatalpa 

 published in these periodicals, attention has been awakened 

 on this subject to such an extent that I have received letters 

 of inquiry from every State and Territory in the Union, 

 amounting in the aggregate to thousands; also from England, 

 South Australia, and New Zealand. As a result, if seed can 

 be obtained, enough will be planted the coming Spring to pro- 

 duce millions of eatalpa trees. During the last two or three 

 years several persons have been engaged in the benevolent act 

 of distributing packages of eatalpa seed to thousands of per- 

 sons in the West, notably, Suel Foster, of Muscatine, Iowa; 

 J. F. Tallent, Burlington, Iowa; and Horace J. Smith, Georges 

 Hill, Philadelphia. Many others have been engaged in the 

 same kindly work, but I have not their names. 



The subject has been deemed of sufficient importance to 

 justify the occupying of your attention with a brief statement 

 of some of the facts that have been gathered in relation to 

 eatalpa. 



THE SI/K TO WHICH IT ATTAINS. 



No work that I have examined on botany or forestry begins 

 to do justice to the eatalpa in this regard. One and a half 

 and two feet is the largest diameter given in am^ of the books 

 I have seen. C. H. Miller, Landscape Gardener of Fairmount 

 Park, Philadelphia, writes: " There is a fine grove of common 

 eatalpa in the park, some of them very large, one measuring 

 thirteen feet in circumference." Arthur Bryant, of Prince- 

 ton, 111., has in his grounds a eatalpa of the Speciosa variety, 

 raised from the seed in 1839, that measures, stump high, three 

 feet in diameter. J. M. Bucklin reports eatalpa trees in South- 

 eastern Missouri, in 1866, three and four feet in diameter, and 

 fifty feet to a limb, and in a letter received last week I am in- 

 formed that plenty eatalpa trees of that size are there to-day. 

 In the Geological Survey of Indiana, 1873, Prof. John Collet re- 

 ports eatalpa trees three, four, and four and a half feet in 

 diameter. Recently, a man writes me from Southern Illinois 

 that he had sawed up eatalpa trees three freot in diameter, 

 and fifty feet to a limb. He also sent me eatalpa railroad ties, 

 among them a section of a limb 8 feet long and 12-J inches in 

 diameter at the small end, cut from the tree forty-five feet 

 from the stump. So that in Pennsylvana, Indiana, Illinois, 

 and Missouri the eatalpa attains to the diameter of three, 

 four, and four and a half feet, instead of one and a half and 

 two feet as given in the books. 



