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ROBEKT DRUMM & CO., FORT WORTH, TEXAS. 
0pnamental Department. 
SHADE AND FOREST TREES. 
A well known tree. 50 cents each. 
fhade.*'%*l-enl^:a" grower, and makes excellent 
growth and hardiness this has lew equals It 
breakl s dewalkT^Tree*" desirable for wind- 
oreaRs or sidewalks. Trees 8 feet, 25 cents each, S2.50 per dozen ■ 8 to 10 feet well 
50 centst’acl'^^"^* ^^bvered in Fort Worth ’only, 
CATAIiPA SPECIOSA. As we consider the Catalpas among the very hardiest trees for 
[o'! "'®.pow them ex^tensively. Our trees are admired bv^hundreds of visi- 
tors for their uniform beauty, healthfulness and rapid, upright growth. The tree attains 
feet in height, and in some instances three to four feet in diameter 
Jd^y Camfna durable than any other native tree. Several instances are record- 
and ei5id T J""? remaining sound 
and good J. C. Teas, of Missouri, says : “ Of all the trees that have been sulvested 
as adapted to the formation of timber plantations, the Caialpa Speciosa stands nre 
«*<^^<=dingly rapid growth, its adaptaiion to ainmst aH soL 
aim*’. ** latitude, extending from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico its 
almost extraordinary success on the western and northwestern prairies, the ease and 
