We have often objected to this name, because it implies that the Eastern species is " tender," while everybody knows that there are large timber trees in the East over a hundred years old, many of which must often have experienced a temperature of perhaps 200 or 300 below zero. Whenever we have suggested this, the answer has been that the Eastern Catalpa dies back when young, or loses its leader and hence is apt to make a more or less crooked trunk, and that the Western one never does. This has been one of its leading recommendations. We have had some doubt about this difference to any material extent, but have had to take the positive statements as they have been given us. Mr. H. C. Raymond, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, now writes to the Iowa Homestead that in the north half of the State the young trees will be often killed back but will recover and increase in hardiness with age.

This is precisely the character of the Eastern form. We are inclined to the opinion expressed in the beginning of the Catalpa enthusiasm, that while there is no doubt of the essential distinctness of the two species for forestry purposes, planters will not go far wrong in having a valuable timber tree, by selecting either one. Its value is chiefly in timber for posts and railroad ties; but planters should remember that the future of forestry will require other species of wood as well as Catalpa wood.