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GLEDITSCHIA MONOSPERMA. 
The largest tree bearing this name in England, is at Syon, near London, which 
has attained a height of more than eighty feet, with a trunk two feet in diameter, 
and an ambitus of forty feet. 
In France, where this species is not much cultivated, it is thought to be more 
liable to injury from frost, than the Gleditschia triacanthos, as it does not appear 
to produce seeds. At Sceaux, near Paris, there is a tree more than fifty feet in 
height. 
In Hanover, in the botanic garden at Gottingen, a tree of this species attained 
the height of thirty feet in twenty-five years after planting. 
In Austria, at Vienna, in the botanic garden, another tree of this species 
attained the height of thirty-six feet in twenty-two years. 
Properties and Uses. The wood of the Gleditschia monosperma resembles 
that of the three-thorned Gleditschia, in its loose texture, and yellow colour ; but 
as it grows in wet grounds, it is consequently inferior in quality, and is applied 
to no particular use in the arts. 
