378 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 
trees rourteen 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 
Speciosa 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 New 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, Germany 
and Great Britain, wile in Korea, from seed which we sent last vear, 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 
speciosa 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 everv 
week of the vear. 
This work has not been accomplished without great opposition from many 
inen of prominence, who have placed almost insurmountable obstacles in our wy. 
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 
