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use for weather work. Famous for shedding its bark as 

 well as its leaves. Leaves 4 to 9 inches long. Canada to 

 the Gulf. 



Red-Bud or Judas 

 Tree (Cercis cana- 

 densis) 



Small tree of bottom 

 lands, rarely 50 feet 

 high; so called from its 

 abundant spring crop 

 of tiny rosy blossoms, 

 coming before the 

 leaves, the latter 2 to 

 6 inches broad. "Ju- 

 das tree" because it blushed when Judas hanged himself 

 on it (Keeler.) Its wood is dark, coarse and heavy. 



