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LIST OF FOREST- TREES. 



following spring transplant the seed- 

 rows about the end 



itch, the 'rows to he three feet 

 apart, and the plants a foot and a half 



ler in the rows. In one or at 



:irs they should he planted 



out where they are intended finally to 



<>)it It will crow in almost 



il, lint attains to most perfection 



h as is liijht and sandy. Uses 

 The wood is hard and very durahle. 

 :ied, in America, preferable 

 to the best Mute oak for axle-trees of 

 trenails for ships, posts for 

 rail-fencing, and for withstanding the 

 bad effects of moisture when fixed in 

 damp ground. It is frequently sub- 

 stituted for box by the turners, for the 

 manufacture of sugar-bowls, salt-cel- 

 lars, candlesticks, forks, spoons, &c. 

 It was cultivated in England in 1640, 



Ir. John Tradescant, or nearly 

 two hundred years ago. But the 

 only satisfactory authenticated state- 

 ments we can find of the greatest age 

 of Locust trees now growing in Eng- 

 land (with that of their produce of 

 timber) does not exceed sixty years. 

 A locust-tree, in the grounds of the 

 late Charles Bloomfiekl, Esq., Bury 



Imond's, of sixty years growth, 

 in 1829, measured in height from 

 forty to fifty feet, and the circum- 

 ference at three feet from the ground 

 six feet seven inches, the solid con- 

 tents being fifty-four feet of tim- 

 ber*. The limits of these pages do 

 not permit further details, except to 

 observe that, owing to the brittle na- 

 ture of the wood when young, the 

 leading shoots of the stems, as well as 



ranches, are very liable to be 



11 by the wind, and probably 

 it is from injuries of this kind that 

 many trees are found unsound even 

 before forty years of growth : great 

 attention to early training or pruning 

 appears to be required by the locust. 

 The comparative strength as to frac- 



c its timber compared to that of 

 be in favour of the 



Barlow, 



: 1 to locust 1867. 



The c lue of the timber 



'f th' f Ro- 



;'ioned be. t yet 



been asct ilieir value for 



ornament is well known. 



hsrg MS. Correspondence. 



DiadelpJiia Decandria. Linn. 



ROBINIA. ROBINJA. Natite of Ft. 



m. 35-50 



Clammy visn'wi 30-40 



Spineless int'-nnis .... 



I-Diifi-k-avetl inm-i-i>pht'i/l<i Siberia 



Parasol ninbrnciiltfcra 



t'prijrht strictn 



Pendulous pt'-ndiila . . . 



Ornamental only. 



Rose Acacia hitjnda .... Carolina 60 



Purple purpurea* . . 



Smooth-branched .rosea Carolina 



Knp. Name. Bot. Name. 



KKNTUCKY COFKEE-TREE, 



on HAUUY BONDUC. GYMNOCLADUS. 

 Dicecia Decandria. Linn. 



MAI.K FJ.OWKII rWyj-, five-toothed; corolla, 

 live in-tailed. FK.M.YU; FI.IWKK the same 

 as the male ; stile, one ; legumcn, one- 

 celled ; seeds, several, embedded in a pulp. 

 Propagated by suckers from the root, as 

 well as from seed. 



Kentucky Coffee-tree Canadensis N.Amer. 40 



There is only'one species of this tree. In 

 its native soil of that part of Genesee 

 which borders on lake Ontario and 

 lake Erie, and in the states of Ken- 

 tucky and Tennessee, Michaux states 

 it to attain to fifty or sixty feet in 

 height, and that the stem is often 

 destitute of branches for thirty feet, 

 while the diameter seldom exceeds 

 twelve or fifteen inches. In summer, 

 when it is fully grown, it has a line 

 appearance. On young trees the 

 leaves, which are doubly compound, 

 are three feet long and twenty inches 

 wide. The bark is very rough, and 

 detaches itself in small vertical strips. 

 The name of coffee was given to this 

 tree by the early emigrants to Ken- 

 tucky. The seeds appear to possess 

 no culinary value. The wood is very 

 compact and of a rosy hue, which fits 

 it for the use of the cabinet-maker. 

 Michaux observes that, like the locust, 

 it exhibits almost nothing but. heart- 

 wood, for that six inches in diameter 

 lias only six lines of sap-wood. These 

 qualities, he observes, recommend it 

 liturc in the forests of the north 

 and centre of Kurope. It vcas intro- 

 duced into England, in 1748, by 

 Archibald Duke of Argyle, but its 

 culture appears not to have extended 

 beyond the garden. 





