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It also succeeds very well if budded on the 

 sophora in July. 



The finest Bartram specimen is fifty feet 

 high and four feet in circumference at the 

 base. 



XANTHOXYLON, Kunfh. Nat. Ord. Xan- 

 thoxylaceas. Dioecia, Tri-pentandria, Linn. 

 Calyx 3-5-parted. Stamens and petals equal 

 to the divisions of the calyx. Carpels 1-5, 

 with an equal number of styles connected at 

 the apex; 2-valved; 1-2-seeded. Fruit mostly 

 berried. Seeds globose, dark, and shining. 



X. FRAXINEUM, Willdenow. Leaves with 

 four to five pairs of ovate leaflets. Sterns 

 prickly, prickles stipitate. Petioles unarmed. 

 Toothache tree; prickly ash. Canada to 

 Kentucky. 



A small tree of about fifteen feet high, the 

 which whoever plants will wish he had never 

 seen, on account of its rambling, brambly 

 appearance, and determination to throw up 

 suckers in spite of all opposition. 



It is a fit companion for the elder bush 

 which John Bartram, in his correspondence, 



