A PLANTING OF CATALPA. 



THIS WAS GROWN FROM SEED PLANTED IN MARCH, 1909, THE SEEDLINGS BEING TRANSPLANTED THIRTEEN 

 MONTHS LATER AND THE PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN MARCH, 1914. 



A CATALPA GROWTH 



PRESIDENT ADALBERT 

 STRAUSS, of the Malvern 

 Lumber Co., of St. Louis, Mo., 

 sends AMERICAN FORESTRY the 

 picture at the head of this article. It is 

 a view of his catalpa speciosa planta- 

 tion, near Malvern, Ark., which he says 

 he believes will compare favorably in 

 straightness and length of bole with 

 any other. The following description 

 is given : 



We sowed the seed in March, 1909. 

 Seedlings transplanted April, 1910. 



The year's growth cut down to the 

 ground in March, 1911. 



Protographs taken in March, 1914. 



The man in the picture is fully six 

 feet tall. 



The land is cut-over pine, thin, sandy 

 loam, with gravelly clay subsoil. 



Do you not think the growth of three 

 years, from the time the saplings were 

 cut down, quite remarkable? 



The background shows natural re- 

 production of pine, having been cut 

 over twice since 1880. 



