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blackberry opens its petals in June, and also the fragrant 

 locust, which, from its rapid growth, beautiful form and hand- 

 some foliage, would rank among our first shade trees, except 

 that it is so tardy in spreading its canopy of green, and so 

 liable to ruinous attack by the borers, which last peculiarity it 

 Fig. 91.— Teasel. 



shares with the incomparable maples. Washing the trunks 

 of the trees in June and Jnly with soft soap, will in great 

 part remove this trouble. 



Fig. 92.— Cotton. 



Now, too, our brothers of the South reap a rich harvest 

 from the great staple, cotton (Fig. 92), which commences to 



