242 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 
They are bowing and crooked, branching six feet from the ground; not much 
trunk to them. Seed was sent to me, which shows it to be bignonoides. I 
advised cutting the whole tree down and preserving one shoot from the stump. 
\Vhile the tree is worthless for beauty or economic use, yet the fact that 
it has stood thirty-five years shows that even the more tender southern 
Catalpa is hardy in Massachusetts. 
The Southern Pacific system in Texas has planted 10,000 Catalpa trees in 
various portions of that state to test the matter under varied conditions which 
exist in so vast a state as Texas. 
NEW YORK. 
At Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester and some other points. 
IDAHO. 
At Paquette and other places along the Oregon Short Line Railway. The 
Catalpa succeeds in the valleys of Idaho. 
OREGON. 
At Portland there are numerous fine Catalpa speciosa trees, Salem and 
other Western Oregon points, and in East Oregon, under irrigation. 
STATE OF WASHINGTON. 
In Tacoma and other portions of Western Washington there are success- 
ful growths of Catalpa. 
BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
At 122 degrees west longitude and latitude north 49 degrees, 10 minutes, 
on Frazier River, are excellent trees of Catalpa speciosa, healthy, hardy and 
vigorous growers in this northern locality. 
WISCONSIN. 
In Milwaukee and Waukegan. Have not examined the northern portion. 
ILLINOIS. 
Every portion of the State. 
IOWA. 
Council Bluffs and generally throughout the State. 
MINNESOTA. 
I am informed by credible persons, who are familiar with the several vari- 
eties, that in Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis, in protected locations, Catalpa 
speciosa is doing very nicely. Still, I do not recommend large plantings in 
Minnesota, but hope full experiments will be made. 
The same advice will apply to North Dakota. 
