DECIDUOUS TREES. 
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small; terminal buds small; covered in winter with a yel- 
low pubescence. A terminal bud and small port.on of a 
branch are shown in fig. 29. Common in low, 
moist soils; wood not as valuable as that of 
the other species. 
The Hickories, as a class, are trees of com- 
paratively slow growth while young. As 
found in forests, they do not bear trans- 
planting very well, owing .to their habit 
of producing a long tap-root with but few 
lateral ones; this difficulty is in a great 
measure obviated when they are grown in 
the nursery and properly root-pruned. They 
should always be transplanted from the seed- 
bed when one year old; and if it is intend- 
ed to transplant them when they become 
large, it is best to move them every three or 
four years, carefully root-pruning them each 
time. This frequent transplanting is beneficial 
to all trees that are to be removed when they 
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Fig. 20. 
have become large; but none more imperatively demand 
it than the Hickory. 
CLapRAstis Tincrorta. (Yellow Wood. Virgilia lutea 
of Michaux.) 
Leaflets seven to eleven, oval, light-green, shining ; flow- ; 
ers in long racemes, white, about an inch in diameter, pea- 
shaped—the racemes produced on the ends of the branches ; 
bark smooth on young trees, becoming slightly furrowed 
on old ones; wood yellow, hence its common name, A 
