STUDIES OF TREES IN WINTER 



long bristles on the branches, leaves, and pods 

 which distinguish this shrub from the other 

 species of the genus. 



Honey Locust -A large tree with a smooth 

 GUditsia triacanthos dark dark, cracking in thick 

 lateral plates on old trees. Long, branching 

 thorns growing in clusters out of the trunk and 

 on the branches. Smooth, shirting brown twigs 

 and prominent U-shaped, alternate leaf-scars. 

 There are no terminal buds, and the lateral ones 

 are superposed, inconspicuous, rotmded, and 

 partly concealed in the stem. The fruit is a 

 large, pea-like pod, often hanging on the trees 

 through the winter. 



The honey locust is a beautiful tree with a 

 large trunk and wide, loosely spreading 

 branches. It is particularly interesting in 

 winter on account of the apparent absence of 

 buds along the stems. But for the rich brown 

 color of the stems they might be thought dead 

 until a cut with a knife in the stem over the leaf- 

 scars shows the little tender buds tucked away 

 out of sight. It is interesting, too, to find thorns 

 which are long enough to have little thorns 

 branching from them. A straight thorn seems 

 formidable enough even on a rose stem, but a 

 thorn some ten inches long with eight thorns 

 branching from it, each varying from half an 



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