Catalpas

If people are going to buy or build a $100 million home, why wait for small trees to mature? To facilitate shopping at his 2,500 neatly wooded acres, Halka maintains a grass landing strip and a helipad.

Thus, clients like Daryl Roth, the longtime Broadway producer, and her husband, the real estate mogul Stephen Roth, can easily pop in for a tour of the Big Oaks, Lindens, Beach, and Catalpa.

We are mature people, and we weren't planning to live long enough to see saplings grow, Ms. Roth said by phone.

Referring to an excursion, the couple undertook to hulk a nurseries that yielded a dozen or more specimens for the park-like grounds of their estate in East Hampton, New York.

I know in the Twin Cities area, they've got a service, they call it Wooden Hood, where they'll take yard trees and then they mill them and turn it into lumber or whatever.

That is typically where you'll see Catalpa lumber show up.

I've seen it occasionally at my local lumber yard.

I hear it's terrible, though, for furniture making because of its movement, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

I always grew up calling it Catawba.

Catawpa.

Well, a Catawba with, like, a W.

Catawba.

Yeah, yeah.

We might find that out, but yeah, I used to go to this, uh, gas station called the Q&M Bait Shop down near the Ross Barnett Reservoir, and you could buy 'em.

You could buy Catawpa tr- uh, worm?

I think they were, like, a quarter a piece or something.

Yes.

Now, we should move off the land issue for a moment, because we should also say that during this period, the 1870s, in America, we have a huge issue, a huge PR coup for the Republican movement, and that's the Catalpa Rescue.

And it doesn't happen in Ireland, doesn't happen in America.

It happens in Australia.

John, can you tell us about that?

So essentially, the Catalpa Rescue is the kind of thing the Fenians specialize in, in a way, which is a stunt involving, you know, a small group of well-organized people.

They're not really that great, as we talked about it, kind of military organization.

So the Catalpa thing, they raise money in America.

Chalopsis?

Catalpa.

Catalpa.

It's a Chalopsis Catalpa cross.

Okay.

So it's called a Catalpa.

Okay.

Yeah.