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rose-colored flowers and pinnate leaves. The clammy locust 

 (H. viscosa) is intermediate in size between the two. It 

 has 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 be used with good 

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

 loam. 



Pagoda Tree, SopJwra Japonica. Small tree with 

 rounded crowns, pinnate leaves, and drooping panicles of 

 creamy white flowers late in summer. The weeping pagoda 

 tree (S. J.pendulci) is one of the finest trees of its class, w r ith 

 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), a tree of an irregular, erect habit. The 

 Japanese red bud (C. Japonica) and the Judas tree (C. sill- 

 quastrum) have larger and brighter blossoms and are suffi- 



