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trees lourteen years old are twenty-six inches in diameter. All of which goes to 

 show that the South, and especially Florida, is best adapted for the growing of 

 catalpa forests. Several parties and companies have signified their intention of 

 planting from one thousand to several thousand acres of forest as soon as catalpa 

 trees can be secured and land prepared on which to plant. 



The Mexican Central Railway last year planted several thousand Catalpa 

 spcciosa trees, and the Mexican government experimented with several thousand. 

 The results have been such that the Secretary de Fomento has purchased as many 

 more, which are being planted at Tampico. 



The Dominion government of Xew Zealand, after extensive trial in thirty 

 experiment stations, is satisfied of the success of the Indiana catalpa in that coun- 

 try 20 degrees south of the equator. 



Quite extensive plantings have also been made in France, Italy. Ciermany 

 and Great Britain, while in Korea, from seed which we sent last year, trees have 

 grown to be four feet in height in one season's growth. Far more extensive 

 plantings are being made this season by missionaries in Korea, under directions of 

 the International Society of Arboriculture and with its support. 



The State of Ohio last year distributed one hundred thousand Catalpa 

 sfeciosa trees, through the State Experiment Station at Wooster, to encourage 

 the farmers in tree planting, while more are being sent out the present season. 



States, nations, corporations and individuals in large numbers have made 

 requests upon this Society for trees, seeds, and information upon arboriculture, 

 to all of whom the Society has responded promptly. Nine hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand trees have thus been contributed and nine hundred pounds of seed, enough to 

 produce five million trees, while two hundred and fifty thousand magazines and 

 printed circulars have been distributed. 



The correspondence increased so greatly as to demand the publication of a 

 monthly magazine by the Society, and ARBORICULTURE was established, with 

 offices at Connersville, Ind. 



More than one hundred large plantations of catalpa trees are under the direc- 

 tion and supervision of the Society, requiring the constant atention of the Secre- 

 tary, in visiting which, with other duties, require one thousand miles' travel every 

 week of the year. 



This work has not been accomplished without great opposition from many 

 men of prominence, who have placed almost insurmountable obstacles in our w .v. 

 Usually this has been caused through ignorance of the parties, their observations 

 having been confined to the millions of spurious seeds and trees sent abroad by 

 careless dealers. Hence the progress has been slow, with a prolonged, severe 

 struggle, but the consciousness of being right, and the constant friendship and 

 hearty support and co-operation of several railway presidents and high officials 

 of the railways, and the members of our Society, have urged me to continue these 

 efforts for so many years, even when the outlook was far from encouraging. 



There have been severe criticisms for the prominence given the Catalpa and 

 of my devotion to this subject; but after half a century of laborious effort by 

 earnest advocates of forestry, it has been impossible to create an interest in actual, 

 practical forest planting, or care of forest by any large number of our citizens, 

 when it was realized that a century must elapse before a majority of our forest 



