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shrul?. It is a beautiful thing in early June, 

 when the large, showy, deep rose-colored blos- 

 soms hang in long, loose clusters. Its leaf- 

 stalks and twigs are covered with fine bristles ; 

 so, too, are the narrow pods. Like other mem- 

 bers of its family, the moss locust has leaf- 

 stalks hollowed at the base, forming a sort of 

 little house for the protection of next year's 

 buds. You will delight in examining these. 



The clammy locust is a rough-barked little 

 tree, which we find growing naturally on the 

 mountain slopes from Virginia southward to 

 Georgia. It has a beautiful, showy, pink bloom, 

 greatly resembling the sweet pea, and has been 

 much planted in gardens for this reason, 

 throughout the Middle and Eastern states and 

 even in Canada. Its rough-stemmed twigs, 

 buds, and blossom stalks are clammy to the 

 touch. 



The American or Kentucky yellow-wood is a 

 beautiful tree with a silvery-gray bark, some- 

 thing like the beech. We find it growing wild 

 in Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina, 

 and it has been much planted as an ornamental 

 tree in variQ.us localities, not only for its beau- 

 tiful bloom, but for its graceful foliage, which 

 changes in the autumn to various tints of gold. 

 Nothing lovelier than the tree in fuU bloom can 



