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can be recoaraanded for general planting. At present, in some places, it cer- 

 tainly looks promising. Farther north, there are many older specimens and 

 as the tree is quite hardy it may be that it will be even more useful in the 

 north than in the south. 



The, Silk Oak or Gr evil lea. 



The Silk Oak (Gravillea robusta) is cornraon throughout all the South and 

 everywhere is proving a common source of trouble. When young, the trees have 

 considerable beauty of form and foliage and the blossoming of the mature trees 

 is most gorgaous. But unfortunately, the leaves are continuous and abundant 

 in dropping and the wood is so brittle that the tree should be cut back to 

 stubs every year for safety's sake. This proceeding inevitably ruins the 

 specimen. Furthermore, the roots have great capacity for entering the water- 

 pipes and once in, they form dense sponge-like masses of fibrous rootlets. 



Altogether, the Grevillea, while a handsome tree, demands too much care 

 to keep it in respectable conditions, to earn a permanent place for itself on 

 the streets, '-'any towns are removing it from the streets and it is to be hoped 

 that the citizens who raise a considerable commotion "at the wholesale destruc- 

 tion" will stop to -ftiink that the Grevillea has habits which make it useful 

 only in private estates where it can have constant care and dense shrubbery to 

 hide the continuous litter of the falling leaves. 



This tree is reasonably hardy and may be found in good condition through 

 the northern central part of the state. But it is not so good there as in the 

 south. 



The, Kentucky Coffee Tree. 



This is a common eastern deciduous tree ( Cyrano cladus dioica)with large 

 compound leaves and panicles of greenish-white flowers followed by bulky fruits, 

 the seeds of which have rarely been used as a substitute for coffee. 



