GINSENG FAMILY 



two feet. In the autuni:i tdcse leaves turn to a peculiar 

 bronze red touched with yellow wdiicl-, makes the tree con- 

 spicuous and beautiful 



The flowers are creamy white and ap- 

 pear in great, loose, ilowcr clusters at the 

 Very summit of the stem. Vou have 

 watciied tb.e tree all summer, June has 

 come and gone, Juiy is well under way, 

 all other flowering trees are even now 

 maturing their fruit, wiien, suiUlenly, the 

 Hercuies' Club shows signs of bloom and 

 sometimes in July, often in August and 

 even in September, the behited flowers 

 come forth. The bloonnng siiray, iike the 

 leaf, is enormous, sometimes rising three 

 or four feet ai>ove the spreading leaves. 

 Many of tiie flowers are sterile, so tiiere is 

 no such generous protluction of fruit as 

 might be cxjiected, but there is consider- 

 alile. The little black drupes ripen quickly and hang in 

 clusiers upon the tree all winter long, for their flesh is so 

 thin tlial liiev do not commend tliemseives to the birds. 



;;o«J. Drupes yi' lur.g 



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