TACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 435 



International Society of Arboriculture, procured several hundred samples of 

 seed labeled Catalpa speciosa, and from seedsmen in various portions of the 

 country, all guaranteed to be genuine. 



Xot a single sample was true, while most of them were the vilest of the 

 vile. 



\Ye do not believe that all American seedsmen who have 'sent out this 

 stuff in vast quantities are dishonest, but it shows a woeful ignorance on their 

 part. 



Some seedsmen, upon learning the character of their Catalpa seed have 

 discontinued its sale, while the cost of pure Catalpa spcciosa is so great they fear 

 to handle it. 



Better have a few seeds of the right kind than a large quantity which 

 will only prove a disappointment in future years. 



At Westvvood, a suburb of Cincinnati, there are several thousand scrub- 

 biosa trees while not a single specimen of pure speciosa was found. These 

 trees are probably forty or fifty years old and very much resemble the photo- 

 graph which we give of the bignonoides elsewhere. 



