108 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 
ceives. Yet with better treatment it shows its gratitude in the brighter color 
and greater beauty of its foliage. It does not sprout from the roots, and is 
unobjectionable to the lawn. It requires little or no pruning, forming a round 
head with spreading branches, if left to choose for itself. 
The tree shown has simply been left 
alone, no knife having ever been ap- 
pled in pruning. The spread of 
branches is eighty feet, and is about 
eighty feet high. 
In the days when hedge fences were 
largely planted, before wire became so 
cheap and effective for fences, there 
were Northern localities where the 
Osage orange could not be grown, and 
honey locust was found to be perfectly 
hardy and a good substitute for the 
bois dare for hedge. ; 
Several railways have tested the 
wood, and having proved its character 
now accept it along with oak for cross- 
ties, although but. a comparative few 
ties have been offered, farmers prefer- 
ring to keep the honey locust for home 
use, while selling the oak. A small vari- 
ety G. aquatica grows in swamps. There 
is not one street tree in Salt Lake City 
which is so handsome or so grand for 
shade as those honey locusts on Second 
Street South, Second West. Here are 
several very large and fine honey lo- 
cust trees which ought to be patterns 
for Utah tree planters. 
In Washington City few avenues sur- 
pass those planted with honey locust 
by William Saunders forty odd years 
ago, although they show some neglect. 
Where in all the wide world can be 
found a handsomer tree than the one 
which we illustrate? No tree in exist- 
ence possesses a more beautiful or 
more graceful foliage. The trees are 
perfectly hardy in all portions of the 
United States, it being one of half a 
dozen species of American trees which 
have survived through thirty vears of 
THE LARGEST REMAINING HONEY neglect, among the hundreds planted 
LOCUST. by the Santa Fe Railway in Kansas. 
