CHAPTER XVII. 
THE LOCUST. 
The Honey-Locust.—Where Found and Convenient Usefulness.— Its 
Growth and Value.—Locust-wood as Pavement.—An Exceptional 
Specimen.—Uses of the Thorny and Thornless Varieties, and their 
Characteristics.— Distinguishing Variety Features.—Its Resisting 
Properties to Destructive Agencies.—Experience of Mr. Helme on 
Locust-planting.—Manner of Sowing its Seed for Hedge.—Manner 
of Transplanting Explained.—Its Usefulness as a Wind-break,— 
Successful Hedge-growing Experiments. — The Water-Locust, — 
Its Growth.—General Characteristics Compared with the Honey- 
Locust.— Where Found and Soil Suitable to its Growth.—The Yel- 
low and Common Locust variously Described.—The Rose-flowered 
Locust Described. 
THE HONEY-LOCUST. 
Tuts is an admirable hedge-plant and a tree of great 
value, and on the river bottoms of Illinois honey-locusts 
are found from eighty to one hundred feet high and four 
feet thick. Dr. Warder, of Ohio, thinks this tree is very 
valuable on account of its rapid growth. He sold one 
acre of locust-trees fifteen years old for one thousand 
dollars. The wood is much used for paving streets. A 
locust in Omaha, planted twelve years ago, measured 
thirty-one inches four feet from the ground, and was 
thirty-five feet high. The thornless locust is best for 
forests, and the thorny variety for hedges. In the thorny 
variety the thorns are stout, often triple or compound ; 
leaflets lanceolate, oblong, somewhat serrated; flowers 
greenish and very fragrant; blossoms the middle of 
June; pods linear-elongated, from twelve to seventeen 
inches long, often twisted; filled with sweet pulp be 
tween the seeds. It was named in honor of Gleditsch, 
