Ailanthus: Tin' Mmlruna: The Manzanita, etc. 289 



to send out tracing roots that sprout sit a considerable distance from 

 the tree. 



1175. The male flowers have ;i nauseating odor, that render this 

 tree undesirable for cultivation near dwellings. It grows very well 

 in t'lc, shade of other trees, and the spreading character of its roots 

 render it useful in consolidating railroad embankments, and for re- 

 boisemcnt of mountains. It is grown from the seed, but is most 

 easily propagated by planting sections of its roots, one end being 

 exposed to the air. 



Tin: Aiswrrs, <>u MADIIONA, of the Pacific Coast (Arlmtii* Men- 



1176. This occurs ujxui Vancouver and the- neighboring islands, 

 but always near tin: c< a-t. It id a handsome evcr-ivm, yielding a 

 closely-grained and heavy wood, much like the box, and grows to 

 from eighteen inches to two feet in diameter, and to the height of 

 fifty feet. It extends southward to Mexico ami Texas and, under 

 favorable conditions, grows to eighty and a hundred feet in height, 

 and to a diameter of from one to three feet. 



Tin; MAN/ANITA. 



1177. This is the AntottapkylM glaum <f Lindley, and the X> ro- 



Ixitry* (jltiucn of Nuttall. It belongs to the heather family (Ericacece), 

 and is a large evergreen spreading shrub, with a red exloliating 

 bark and pinkish white flowers in a terminal racime. It abounds 

 in California and Oregon has great powers of endurance in 

 drouth, and it is worthy of cultivation for variety in parks and 

 pleasure grounds. The wood is very dense, reddish, and hard, but 

 too small ior much use. There are over a dozen species of the 

 Ardottapkyht, mostly humble shrubs. The A. glabra grows to from 

 8 to 24 feet, and the A. pungens to from 3 to 20 feet in height. 



THE PAWPAW (Asimina iriloba). 



1178. Some seven or eight species of the Asimina are found in 

 North America, mostly in the Southern and Southwestern States 

 and in Mexico, and, excepting the one above named, unimportant 

 shrubs. The pawpaw grows to some fifteen or twenty feet in height, 

 generally in thickets, and it is chiefly important for its fruit, which 

 in form and flavor somewhat resembles a banuana. 



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