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rose-colored flowers and pinnate leaves. The clammy locust 

 (];. viscosd) is intermediate in size between the two. It 

 Las clammy branches, pinnate leaves, and pale rose-colored 



flowers in May or June. All the Robinias are excellent 

 for rather poor and gravelly or stony soil, and for general 

 use in ornamental gardening. 



Yellow-wood or Virgilia, Cladrastis tinctoria. — This is a 

 small, handsome tree, with regular, rounded crowns, smooth 

 grayish stems, pinnate leaves with ovate, parallel-veined leaf- 

 lets, and drooping panicles a foot or more long, of fragrant. 

 creamy white flowers in early summer. It is without ex- 

 ception the finest of the small ornamental trees of the family, 

 beautiful as a lawn tree and may also he used with good 

 effect in mixed shrubberies. Thrives best in a rich, sandy 

 loam. 



Pagoda Tree, Sophora Japotiica. — Small tree with 

 rounded crowns, pinnate leaves, and drooping panicles of 

 creamy white flowers late in summer. The weeping pagoda 

 tree (S. tLpenduIa) i- one of the finest trees of its class, with 

 almost perpendicular branches. Both are beautiful for 

 specimen trees on a lawn. 



Red Bud, Cercis. — There are three very ornamental 

 species of this genus which flower in spring before the 

 leaves unfold. The reddish-purple flowers are produced 

 in dense clusters along the bare branches, and the trees are 

 very effective in that state. Leaves oval, rounded, or heart- 

 shaped, undivided. The hardiest is the American red bud 

 {C\ Canadensis), & tree of an irregular, erect hal>it. The 

 Japanese red bud (CI Japonicd) and the Judas tree ( ( '. sili- 

 quaxtnnn) have larger and brighter blossoms aud are suffi- 



