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and set it out at his residence where it has thrived beaiitituUy. 

 li lias bloomed everv vear, and tliis year it had seven lovelv 

 blossoms, and the year before when this picture wa^ taken it 

 had five. 



Notwith.slaiKlin^- the fact, that this siJccimen has been 

 transplanted three times, it seems to be perfect in every way. 

 Here is hopinj,^ it will continue to thrive. 



PLANT NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS-X 



LEGUMINOSAE-II 

 By W11.LARD N. Ci^uTii 



A LTHOUGH there are a number of herbaceous species of 

 ■^^ Leguminosae the group, as a whole, is a woody one. In 

 the tropics, especially, shrubs and trees belonging to this 

 faniilv are varied and abundant. Among well-know forms 

 are the tamarind, the logwood, the indigo plant, the red-bead 

 tree, and the carob or St. John's bread. In our own region, 

 a tree with all the characteristics of tropical forms is the 

 common locust or false acacia (Robinia f^scudacacia ). In 

 late May when other trees are well in leaf, it hangs out a 

 profusion of fragrant white flowers in pendant racemes. So 

 iioticable a tree naturally has a nunil)er of vernacular names. 

 The i)ure white flowers and brownish-yellow heart-wood are 

 responsible for such terms as "white locust", yellow locust," 

 "black locust," and "green locust". Some of these names 

 are not .so much given for some charactistic of the tree as to 

 distinguish it from other various forms that also bear 

 the name of locust. "Silver chain," sometimes heard is clear- 

 ly patterned after "golden chain", a name given to laburnum 



