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To collect ed of pure speciosa costs $3.50 to $5.00 per pound, while seed 

 from low-grow rig, inferior trees may be gathered for ten cents per pound; 

 hence the incentive to secure cheap seed. 



The author, some years ago purchased seed from the tenant of the Yaggy 

 plantation at Hutchinson, Kansas. After waiting four years we found the 

 entire lot to be bignonoides hybrids. 



\Ye afterwards collected seed and pods in this noted Catalpa farm, which 

 we photographed, and reproduce below. No intimation was ever given by the 

 Forestry Bureau that these trees were other than speciosa, although they 

 spent months examining it. 



SKKI) I'ODS I'HOTOGKAPHED AT THE YAGGY FAKM. CATALPA HYBRID 



