96 THE TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



feet high. The flowers grow in clusters from lat- 

 eral buds, and not in racemes from the end of the 

 branchlets, as in the preceding. The fruit is small 

 and red, with a thin, sour flesh. The bark of the 

 trunk is a light red. The wood is reddish and fine- 

 grained, but the tree is too small to admit of much 

 use. 



6. Mock Orange. (P. Caroliniana, Ait.) — This 

 much admired species is confined to the neighbor- 

 hood of the Ocean, and is not native, I think, much, 

 if any, north of the Cape Fear. From thence south- 

 ward it is rather common along the Atlantic and 

 Gulf coasts. It is 20 to 30 feet high, in proper soil 

 farther south becoming 40 to 50, with thick oval 

 summit, clothed with evergreen leaves and casting a 

 deep shade. The racemes of white flowers (growing 

 from the fork of the leaves) are numerous and showy. 

 The fruit is black, globular, not eatable, and remains 

 all Winter on the tree. The wood is rose-colored and 

 fine-grained, rather brittle, I think, but is not abun- 

 dant enough to be of use in the arts, and is not supe- 

 rior to others more easily obtained. The chief value 

 of the tree is as an ornament, for which it is very 

 extensively cultivated about houses, either singly or 

 as borders and hedges to private grounds throughout 

 the Lower Districts of the Southern States, thriving 

 very well in sandy soils. 



Devil Wood. (Olea Americana, Linn.) — This 

 has about the same range with the Live Oak^ and, 

 like that, is found but a short distance from the coast. 



