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clusters are six or eight inches in length, a.d quite broad, 

 the flowers daintily formed, and arranged in a much more 

 graceful, loose, and easy manner, than those of the locust. 

 They have a very agreeable, slight perfume, especially in 

 the evening, and the whole effect of the tree, when 

 standing singly on a lawn and filled with blossoms, is 

 highly elegant. 



When the blossoms disappear, they are followed by the 

 pods, about the fourth of an inch wide, and three or four 

 inches long, containing a few seeds. These ripen in July 

 or August. 



This tree is frequently called the Yellow-wood in its 

 native haunts its heart wood abounding in a fine yellow 

 coloring matter, which, however, is said to be rather 

 difficult to fix, or render permanent. The bark is 

 beautifully smooth, and of a greenish grey color. In 

 autumn, the leaves, when they die off, take a lively yellow 

 tint. 



This tree grows pretty rapidly, and is very agreeable in 

 its form and foliage, even while young. It commences 

 flowering when about ten or fifteen feet high, and we can 

 recommend it with confidence to the amateur of choice 

 trees as worthy of a conspicuous place in the smallest 

 collection. 



The only species known is Virgilia lutea. It was first 

 described by Michaux, and was sent to England about 

 the year 1812. Quite the finest planted specimens within 

 our knowledge are growing in some of the old seats in the 

 northern suburbs of Philadelphia, where there are several 

 thirty or forty feet in height, and exceedingly beautiful, 

 both in their form and blossoms. A small specimen 

 on our lawn, eighteen feet high, blossoms now very pro- 

 fusely. 



