LEGUMINOS. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 71 
The Kentucky Coffee-tree, as it is almost universally called in the United States and in England, 
from the use which at one time was made of the seeds, is not at all particular about the character of 
the soil in which it is planted, although it will not grow rapidly or to a great size except in deep rich 
and rather humid loam. It may be propagated by seeds which the pistillate plants produce rather 
sparingly, and which sometimes do not germinate until the second or third years, and more easily and 
quickly from cuttings made from pieces of the roots, which soon form rootlets and grow with vigor.’ 
1 Briot, Rev. Hort. 1870, 436. 
