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year. There are also some very good specimens of bignonoides at the Bar- 

 racks, New Orleans, but it has required very many years to produce the trees. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



Several large plantations of Catalpa speciosa are being made in this State, 

 but I have not found speciosa growing here as yet. 



ALABAMA. 



On the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, near Fairhope, is a fine grove of 

 Catalpa speciosa. All others which I have seen are of bignonioides, of which 

 there are many at Mobile and elsewhere. 



The Louisville and Nashville Railway Company is planting one thou- 

 sand and forty acres with pure speciosa in Baldwin County. The land is roll- 

 ing soil, of sandy clay loam. 



Captain J. A. Carney, at Carneys, thirty miles north of Mobile, has a fine 

 grove of speciosa, growing well. 



Mr. Wilber J. Andrews, of Chicago, is planting some large tracts on the 

 line of the Louisville and Nashville Railway with Catalpa speciosa as an in- 

 vestment. 



The soil, rainfall, temperature, all are favorable to the rapid and success- 

 ful growth of this tree throughout the central and southern part of Alabama. 



FLORIDA. 



There are many Catalpa speciosa trees in Florida, and in all cases the 

 growth is extremely rapid. At Pensacola I found trees but four years planted 

 which were six inches in diameter and twenty-eight feet high. 



Fifty thousand trees have been planted at this point by the Louisville 

 and Nashville Railway Company. They are located two miles north of the 

 city, on a high sand ridge. Thirty feet depth of pure sand lies beneath the 

 tract, it being that depth to water. They were planted in the spring of 1903, 

 an unprecedented drought occurring, lasting the entire season. Yet they all 

 survived and made good root growth, and give promise of success. 



At Jacksonville the Florida East Coast Railway has several thousand trees 

 growing. Here, in pure sand, I fo'und a Catalpa tree only nine years old which 

 measures fifty-four inches girth at six feet above ground. 



There have been many thousands of t r ees planted in various portions 

 of Florida, all of which have proven the adaptability of the sands of this State 

 for the production of Catalpa timber. 



Some mistakes were made in the early plantings, the Southern, or big- 

 nonioides variety having been sent by Northern nurserymen in lieu of speci- 

 osa. These have proven failures. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 

 Both soil and climate of this State are suited to the growth of the Catalpa. 



GEORGIA. 



The above is also applicable to Georgia. I did not find speciosa in Charles- 

 ton or Savannah, but many specimens of bignonioides. 



