212 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



Yellowwood. The yellowwood is rather a rare tree, 

 ciadrastis tinctoria. reaching a height of about 40 feet, 



Cladrastis lutea. ^^ yellowish woodj gmoot]l bark 



resembling that of the beech, long, beautiful, light- 

 green leaflets, and 

 delicately fragrant, 

 cream-white flowers 

 which bloom in 

 June ; these hang in 

 graceful clusters a 

 foot or more in length. 

 The pods, which are 

 two inches long, 

 are ripe in the 

 latter part of Au- 

 gust. The tree 

 is found wild in Kentucky 

 and Tennessee, but is a 

 much more familiar object 

 in parks and gardens. Its re- 

 semblance to the locust bespeaks 

 a close relationship with the lat- 

 ter tree. There is a beautiful specimen of this tree 

 at Dosoris, L. I., and another in the Phoenix Nurs- 

 ery, Bloomington, 111. 



One of the most beautiful and symmetrical yellow- 

 wood trees I have ever seen is on the grounds of the 



