THE GLEDITSCHIA. 45 



about Judea. Being a horrid thorny class, no doubt 

 one of these was the tribe from which came the crown 

 of thorns, instead of from Paliurus, which tribe is a 

 dwarf class of very handsome shrubs, although spiny. 

 The other, Gleditschia, grows to a common coarse tree, 

 similar to the Acacia Robinia, and produces pods of 

 bean-shaped seed. G. Ferox possesses thorns 5 or 6 

 inches long. 



It bears seed as does the Robinia, and the species 

 may be propagated by raising it from seed sown in deep 

 seed-pans or pots, after soaking it for some hours in 

 warm water. Sow in any good soil of a sandy kind, 

 cover the seed an inch deep, and set in a brisk heat ; 

 pot off as soon as a few inches high, and plant out 

 finally ; or, the plants niay be hardened off and pricked 

 out from the seed-pot into a bed of fine good soil. The 

 choice kinds must be grafted on the common sorts. 



