TREES AND SHRUBS 



LOCUST, Robinia neomeocicana. 



Gardens. June — August. Robinias may be propagated by cuttings of 

 shoots (5-8 ins. long in ordinary soil in sheltered position outdoors in autumn ; 

 layers in September or November; suckers in October or November; seeds 

 in ordinary soil outdoors November or March. 



Flowers deep rose, 1 in. long, papilionaceous, in a raceme ; pedicels slender, 

 \ in. long, glandularly hairy ; Standard and wing petals broad ; Fruit a legume, 

 glandularly-hispid ; seeds brown, slightly mottled. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, 6-12 ins. long, leaflets 15-21, elliptical- 

 oblong, cuneate or rounded at base, apex mucronate, thin, glabrous above, 

 puberulous on midribs beneath, pale blue-green, l£ in. long, 1 in. broad ; 

 petioles pubescent ; stipules developing into spines. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, 15-20 ft. ; Twigs reddish-brown, puberulous ; 

 Hark thin, furrowed, brown. 



Native of N. America. 



LOCUST TREE, Robinia Pseudacacia. 



Parks, gardens. A very useful tree for town gardens, many handsome 

 old trees being scattered throughout the country. April, May. 



Floxvers white, papilionaceous, protandrous, fragrant, borne in a loose, 

 pendulous, slender axillari) raceme, 3-5 ins. long ; bracts membranous, very 

 caducous ; Calyx inferior, 5-partite, spotted, teeth short and broad, 2 upper 

 ones sub-connate ; Petals 5, standard large, rerlexed, naked within ; wings 

 falcate-oblong, free; keel incurved, obtuse; Stamens 9 united, 1 free; Ovary 

 superior, 1 -celled, style bent at right angles to ovary, stigma capitate; Fruit 

 a legume, 2-3 ins. long, very thin, smooth, dark brown, usually 4-8 seeded, 

 persistent through winter ; seeds brown, streaked witli black. 



Leaves imparipinnate, 4-12 ins. long, leaflets 9 19, shortly petiolate, oblong- 

 ovate or elliptical, entire, obtuse or acute, thin, soft, bright green above, 



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