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yellow and green. The crimson tint is bordered with grey, and 



the green sinks away into a deeper blue. 



Every season there are flowers to be 



seen on the tree, although it is only 



on alternate years that it throws out 



its full wealth of bloom. More than a 



fortnight they seldom last, and in warm 



weather hardly as long. In cultivation 



it would be difficult to imagine a more 



beautiful, low-growing tree than the 



yellow-wood ; for besides its flowers, 



its foliage is extremely graceful and ciadrdstis lutea. 



changes in the autumn to various tints of gold. 



The wood of Cladrastis lutea is light yellow and brittle. In 

 fact its branches are very prone to break when they are struck 

 by a high gale of wind. 



KENTUCKY COFFEE-TREE. STUMP TREE. (Plate CXIII.) 



Gymndcladus diolca. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Senna. Head, narrow; 4080-110 /If*/. N.Y. and Penn. south- May-July. 



branches, ascending. ward and westward. Fruit: Sept., Oct. 



Bark: grey, tinged with red; coarse; rough and separating into persistent 

 scales. Branches: few and having no thorns. Stipules : lanceolate. Leaves : 

 one to three feet long; unequally twice-compound; alternate; odd-pinnate; 

 with from seven to thirteen leaflets on each division of the blade; ovate; 

 taper-pointed at the apex and rounded or cordate at the base; entire and 

 fringed about the margins. Dark green and glabrous above, pale yellow-green 

 below and slightly pubescent along the ribs. Flowers: white; dioecious; 

 growing in racemes along the branches. Legumes: large; six to ten inches 

 long, and broad; reddish brown; flat; glaucous and containing several hard 

 and grey seeds. 



It is a pleasure to feel that we know just what to expect 

 from trees that they are not with every return of the season 

 presenting us with new fashions. We may have noticed that 

 the late, unfolding leaves of the Kentucky coffee-tree are pink, 

 and that as they become more accustomed to the world they 



