THE CATALPA TREE. 



A PAPER READ BEFORE 



THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS, 



At New Haven, Conn,, August ?!?th 187$, 



AND BEFORE 



THE OHIO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



At Dayton 0, December 6', J87S, 

 By E. E. BARNEY, of Dayton, Ohio. 



INTRODUCTION. 



When first informed that the catalpa, a tree I had been fa- 

 miliar with on our streets for more than thirty years, possess- 

 ed the power to resist decay to a wonderful degree, I was so 

 impressed with its great economic value that I deemed it very 

 important that a knowledge of its very valuable properties 

 should become widely extended. 1 have devoted what time J 

 could command from the supervision of a large manufactur- 

 ing business, for the last eight years, to gathering and pub- 

 lishing, from time to time, such facts and information as 1 

 have been able to obtain on this subject. 



A year ago, at the request of the president of a leading rail- 

 road, I published these tacts and information in pamphlet 

 form. Since then 1 have been greatly encouraged and aided 

 in its general circulation by Dr. Jno. A. Warder, President of 

 the Ohio Horticultural Society and of the American Forestry 

 Association, and Prof. 0. S. Sargent, Director of the Botanic- 

 Garden and Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and 

 many others. Most efficient aid has been rendered also by 



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