372 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 
niany hundred of thousands of inferior trees are still being scattered throughout 
the world by careless dealers. 
A CATALPA SPECIOSA TREE STILL STANDING, WHICH WILL MAKE 45 TIES, ESTIMATED 
IN 
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- 
