TREES OF AMERICA. 133 



" There is another species of locust, that is 

 always called yellow-wood in Tennessee, 

 where it is found. It is a small tree, seldom 

 growing more than thirty feet high : it diifers 

 from the locust in the bark, which is smooth, 

 whereas that of all the other kinds is quite 

 rough, and in the leaves, which are a great 

 deal larger. The flowers are like those of the 

 locust, but not as sweet-smelling, and they 

 hang in large elegant bunches. The heart 

 of the tree is of a brilliant yellow, and it gives 

 its colour to water ; but as yet no use has 

 been made of it in dying, because the stain is 

 not permanent : perhaps somebody will find 

 out a way of preventing it from fading oi 

 washing out. 



" The sweet locust, or honey locust, as I 

 have told you already, is much like the 

 locust in size, and in some other particulars. 

 It differs from it in the bark, in the form of the 

 trunk, which almost always appears twisted, 

 and in the quality of the wood, which is coarser- 

 grained, and neither so strong nor so lasting. 

 But the greatest difference is in the honey 

 contained in the pods, and in the enormous 

 size of the pods themselves. How large were 

 those you have seen?'' 



