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black fruit pods, often a foot long. There is a tree of 

 this species in Mr. D. A. Varnej's yard, No. 31 Pleas- 

 ant street, another at No. 10 Church street, and 

 one by the New (Svvedenborgian) Church on Essex 

 street. The male and female flowers are on separate 

 trees and hence only certain trees bear the long pods 

 referred to. The one on Church street is a female 

 tree — that by the Swedenborgian Church on Essex 

 street is a male tree. I cannot see, however, that the 

 female tree is inclined to have more and sharper thorns, 

 as some wicked botanists have declared. This tree 

 is often mistaken for a tamarind, to which it is botaai- 

 cally related and which it resembles in some respects. 

 It has been asserted by one person that a sea captain in 

 the family brought a tamarind from the West Indies, 

 and to this day it is insisted that a certain honey locust 

 is a tamarind tree. But of course no tropical tree 

 would withstand our winters, nor does this tree bear 

 tamarinds, and so there must be a mistake. The 

 red-bud, (Cercis canadensis), a small tree bearing large 

 quantities of lilac colored flowers close to the branches, 

 before the large leaves appear, may be seen in the 

 garden of the Tucker house, 129 Essex street, and at 

 the rear of the museum of the Peabody Academy. 



The golden chain laburnum (Laburnum vulgare) 

 has been flowering in Mr. Geo. Chase's garden on 

 Lafayette street, in the yard of the Mansfield house on 

 Broad street, and at Dr. Mack's place on the hill back 

 of Mason street, but it is not a perfectly hardy tree in 

 this climate. Another tree, too seldom seen here and 

 yet perfectly hardy, is the Kentucky cojQfee tree (Gym- 

 nocladus canadensis). There are two fine specimens 

 in the garden just north of the house of the late Gen. 



