PRACTICAL 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. 
Not a single sample was true, while most of them were the vilest of the 
vile. 
We 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 speciosa 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 Westwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, there are several thousand scriub- 
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- 
eraph which we give of the bignonoides elsewhere. 
