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TREES GROWING liN iMOlST SOIL. 



family. The legumes are a more yellow tone of green than 

 are the leaves and add in their turn touches of colour, like 

 high lights, throughout the tree. When given good soil and 

 sufficient room for development it grows rapidly in cultivation 

 and is a charming acquisition to parks and gardens. Its dark, 

 reddish-brown wood is not strong. 



An ugly tradition that clusters about the old world relative 

 of this tree is that from its branches Judas hanged himself. 



FOUR-WINGED SNOWDROP TREE. 

 BELL TREE. {Plate LII.) 

 Mohrodendron Carolinnm. 



SILVER 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT 



atorax. Heady narroiu; branches, 30-90 yi?^/. 

 stout. or a shrub. 



RANGE 



West Va. to Hit no is 



southward to Fla. 



and Texas. 



TIME OF BLOOM 



March, April. 



Branches : reddish brown ; ridged. Leaves : simple ; alternate ; slender- 



Eetioled; ovate or oblong, with pointed apex and rounded or wedge-shaped 

 ase; slightly serrate; bright green and glabrous above, slightly pubescent 

 underneath; thin. Flowers: growing in loose, drooping clusters along the 

 branches and appearing with or before the leaves. Calyx: short; four- 

 toothed. Corolla: canipanulate ; four-parted. Stamens: eight to sixteen. 

 Pistil: one. Seed-vessels: long; oblong; four-winged and conspicuously 

 tipped with a remnant of the style. 





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Mohrodindron Carollnum. 



So few leaves and flowers are to 

 be seen when these fair snowdrops 

 cover the tree that one is almost 

 inclined to look upon them with 

 suspicion and to wonder whether in 

 spite of their unsullied freshness 

 they have been desirous of taking a 

 peep at the earth before it was fully 

 clothed. But whatever may have been 

 their motives, it is truly a joy to have 

 them come forth so early in the sea- 

 son and to feel that the back of father 

 Winter is broken. When hung with 

 them the tree is a most pleasing 



