218 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



tor, which are ripe in October. The tree grows from 

 -15 to 80 and occasionally 110 feet high, and h..s few 

 branches. In the South its seeds were at one time 

 nsed as a substitute for coffee. In the Public Garden, 

 Boston, not far from the path leading to Newbury 

 Street, there is a very handsomely proportioned but 

 rather small specimen perhaps 40 feet tall. The 

 Kentucky coffee tree is a native of rich woods, and 

 is common from western New York to Minnesota 

 a id Arkansas. 



Honey Locust. The none J locust is a tree which 



GieditscHa boys do not care to climb, for an 



tmacanthos. ] )V i 0US reason . its murderous-look- 



ing thorns, which grow on the trunk in formidable 

 bunches, are altogether too threatening for the average 

 juvenile climber. The leaves are sometimes twice 

 compound, but not very often ; they suggest a sort 

 of toothed edge, but so indistinctly that the fact 

 would escape notice unless the leaflet was subjected 

 to close scrutiny. The inconspicuous and greenish- 

 colored flowers appear in short spikes in early sum- 

 mer ; the long, red-brown, straplike, twisted pods 

 ripen in late autumn, and contain most remarkably 

 hard, shiny brown, flattened seeds ; the pod is filled 

 between the seeds with a greenish-yellow, sweet pulp 

 much relished by the " small boy," who respects the 

 tree's defenses, and waits for the fruit to drop. 



