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Locust Tree, Robinia Pseudacaeia. A fine ornamental 

 tree of a very pictursque habit, with light rounded sprays 

 of pinnate leaves and loose, drooping racemes of fragrant 

 white flowers appearing late in the spring. A fine tree for 



FIG. 103.-LOCUST (ROBINIA PSEUDACACIA). 



small avenues, shrubberies and masses of trees and shrubs. 

 It grows in high, often poor and gravelly soil. The rose- 

 acacia (H. liispida) is a very small tree or shrub of a strag- 

 gling and spreading habit, growing in rocky and stony soil 

 on the banks of rivers and lakes. It has fine racemes of 



