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branches of a pale green color. Branches spiny, similar to Black Locust. 

 Leaves bi-pinnate one to three paired, and leaflets three to six paired, being 

 a doubly compound leaf, and very pretty. Flowers axillary, solitary, yellow 

 with reddish brown lines near base of petals. Pods three to four inches 

 long, three-fourths to one inch wide by three-fourths inch thick, containing 

 eight to ten locust-like seeds. 



Jaglands rupestrls, Dwarf Walnut. O.^casional along streams westward 

 from Austin, on the Solano, Concho, Devil's and Pecos rivers. A large shrub. 

 Fruit smiU, round, rough, abundant. 



Junlperm oecidentdlis, Mountain or Western Cedar, Oregon Cedar. Though 

 extending over the Rocky Mountain region into Oregon, it forms a striking 

 pirt among trees in the hills and mountains of western Texas, ten to fifty 

 feet. Wood very firm and durable. This may prove still more valuable in 

 the dry regions of the West than the Red Cedar for forest culture. 



Juniperus pichyphlea (Torr.). Thick bark Cedar. Same parts of Texas as 

 Mountain Cedar, but less abundant, and extensive in its range; ten to twenty- 

 five feet, spreading, scraggy, often forked near the ground. Bark thick and 

 checked like that of pine. Fruit large, sweet, edible. Quite an ornamental 



tree. 



Madura amantica, Osage Orange, Bois d'Arc. Naturally confined to cen- 

 tral, northern Texas, southeastern Indian Territory and southwestern Ar- 

 kansas, though it has readily accommodated itself to almost all parts of 

 the United States south of 42°. It reaches its grandest proportions in dry 

 bottoms of Dallas, Hunt, Collin, Grayson and Fannin counties in Texas, 

 where specimens occur three to four feet in diameter and sixty to seventy 

 feet high. 



Mi/rus microphylla, Small-leaved Mulberry. On hills, vicinity of Austin 

 and westward ; twelve to twenty feet. Fruit black, sour, very rough ; leaves 

 small, smooth, mostly entire, cordate; branches smooth. 



Melia A'zedarach, var. umhracidiformh, Texas Umbrella Tree. Though 

 this is doubtless an introduced species, the wild or specific form is found 

 of large size in wild forests miles away from habitations, sprung from 

 seeds carried by birds, probably, as robins will eat the berries. The 

 Umbrella form was first brought to notice some forty years ago by J. 

 Burke, Sr., (jf Houston, Tex., who found a tree on an old place near Bufliilo 

 B.iyou. Thence it spread, and is a favorite in in uiy i)arls of the South. 

 Persons from the North are always charmed with its dark, glossy leaves and 

 compact, i)alm-like head. The tree is brittle and short-lived, and hardy 

 only about midway up in the Indian Territory. 



Piunun umbdlata, Sproutless Plum. Found throughout the same region 

 with the Bois d'Arc, and extending further South ; fifteen to forty feet. Bears 

 abundantly, of a yellowish red, medium sized, firm, nstringent fruit, covered 

 thickly with a white bloom. Rii)ens in August, Se{)tember, and October. 

 Never sprouts; grows in almost every variety of soil with ease, is a splendid 



