Prof. Baily is catching it all round for his report on the hardiness of the two Catalpas, and it is even asserted that his plants are all of the one kind - C. speciosa. However, the trouble all arises from the effort of some Western men who were eager to make out that C. bignonoides, which stands in the Eastern States a temperature of many degrees below zero, is a "tender" tree.

There is no doubt, we think, that when such experienced foresters as Mr. Douglas tell us the C. speciosa is hardier in some special localities and a better forest tree than C. bignonoides for Western planting, that these are facts. All the trouble comes from a trade effort to belittle the Eastern species, for which there was no occasion. It is a case of one's own chickens coming home to roost.