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THE CATALPA

The catalpa has a value as a timber tree. The wood is one of the most lasting known, but it is, in all its varieties, an ornamental tree also, with its magnificently large leaves; and it is, probably, as valuable as the sun-flower in arresting miasma. One species, catalpa speciosa, a western forest tree, hardy up to forty-two degrees North, standing the hard winters there, and to our mind a much finer FLOWERS OF DOUBLE FLOWERING THORN-NATURAL SIZE. tree, in every respect, than the southern species, catalpa bignonioides; the northern,