Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
which seems unaccountable. This is asmaller tree than 
either of the others, often found in blossom asa shrub, and 
less familiar than the other two, being found wild only 
in the southern part of our territory, but considerably 
cultivated at the North. Its foliage effect is almost pre- 
cisely that of the common locust, though sharp eyes will 
detect the mucronate or finely pointed apex of each 
leaflet. The two important distinctive features are the 
stickiness of leaf-stem and branchlets, more marked than 
in the butternut, and its dense and abundant masses of 
pink-white or rose-colored flowers—pea-shaped, as in 
the allied species—with a most delicate aroma, and far 
handsomer than those of the acacia. Another advan- 
tage is its later and more prolonged flowering ; for its 
first bloom is not until about the first of July, and this 
is followed a month later by another, more restricted, 
yet quite showy. ‘This beautiful growth, shapely and 
perfectly hardy, deserves much wider popularity. Its 
late flowering particularly commends it, and it is un- 
equalled by any other native tree—scarcely by any 
foreign—in the size, prodigality, and rich tint of its 
flower-clusters. This, too, is often thorny, like its 
kindred. 
Hickorigs.—It is a transition that has the merit of 
strongest contrast to speak next of the hickory—tough, 
strong, and coarse-grained, without a particle of poetry 
in its nature, forgive me, ye that think the contrary— 
and may the writer pardon me who calls it ‘‘ one of 
our most picturesque trees’?! Next to the chestnut, 
it is our most rugged type of forest- growth, and its 
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