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advance with the same rapidity, its annual growth being 

 usually only a foot or so. 



It is a tree of the middle size, the Bartram specimen being 

 about twenty feet high. The branches are few in number, 

 short, stout, and nearly erect, somewhat rough, with a brown- 

 ish colored bark. Ti>e leaves are pinnate and coarsely 

 toothed. The flowers, which are yellow, appear in loose 

 terminal panicles, in July and August, and are highly orna- 

 mental. These are succeeded by the seeds, which appear in 

 large bladdery capsules. The summer tint of the leaves is of 

 a light green, but in autumn they change to a deep yellow. 



The Kolreuteria prefers a light loamy soil, and a situation 

 rather dry than otherwise. In a wet locality it suffers by the 

 winter, losing a portion of its young wood. As it acquires 

 age, however, its growth is less and the branches become 

 tough and woody, resisting the intense cold uninjured. It 

 forms a neat hemispherical head. 



The propagation of the Kolreuteria is by seeds, or cuttings 

 of the roots. The former should be planted in boxes in the 

 autumn and have the protection of a frame : in the spring 

 the young plants will appear above the ground and should 

 have the usual care. The second winter the young plants, 

 still in the boxes, should again have some little protection ; 

 but the third year they should be planted out in nursery rows 

 in a warm and light soil. Their after-treatment is the same 

 as other trees. Cuttings of the roots should be planted in 

 boxes, in the autumn, and have the same management as the 

 seedlings. 



We commend this tree to the attention of amateur planters. 

 Introduced among others it forms a pleasing contrast in the 

 short, stocky growth of its blunt shoots, in the doubly pin- 

 nate character of its light and airy foliage, in the bright hue 

 of its yellow flowers, and in the abundance of its swollen 

 seed vessels, afibrding at all seasons something to interest the 

 true lover of ornamental landscape. 



