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PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



transportation, manufactures, the mines as well as for agriculture, was solved by 

 this exhibit. 



The result has been an awakening among consumers of wood such as has 

 never before been experienced. The demand for seeds and trees of Catalpa spe- 

 ciosa, which can be relied upon as true, is far greater than can be supplied, while 

 n.any hundred of thousands of inferior trees are still being scattered throughout 

 the world by careless dealers. 



A CATALPA SPECIOSA TREE STILL STAXDIXC. WHICH WILL MAKE 4.T TIES. ESTIMATED 

 TO BE 40 YEARS OF AGE. HEIGHT, 103 FEET: DIAMETER AT STUMP, 36 INCHES 



A number of the great railway systems have begun the planting of forests, 

 for the purpose of growing ties and lumber, although some officials still look upon 

 the work as experimental. 



The first large plantation of catalpa made in the United States was in South- 

 east Missouri, half a century ago, by the Iron Mountain Railway. The officials 

 of this pioneer railway were convinced, even at that early period, that forest plant- 



