144 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
species in the United States stood at Springfield, Mas- 
sachusetts, and measured fourteen feet around the base. 
It is propagated best in layers, but great care should be 
taken to keep the hackberry moth from eating the leaves 
and the tender young plants. The moth is a brilliant 
insect, three and a half inches long, half an inch thick, 
of a beautiful apple-green color, marked in an artistic 
manner with white, and shaded with pink. 
THE RED-BUD. 
This is either a small tree or a large shrub, but usually 
the latter; it reaches the height of from twelve to thirty 
feet. Its flowers are small and of a fine pink color; 
they cover the tree all over, and present quite a beau- 
tiful appearance. The flowers are succeeded by a red 
berry, which contains the seed. The plant is easily 
propagated by simply sowing the seed in ground scraped 
over with a rake or a hoe. There is a great similarity 
between the red-bud of Europe and the red-bud of this 
country, but they are easily distinguished by the heart- 
shaped leaves of the American variety, and the less 
number of leaves and flowers. The bark of the young 
trees is used to dye wool of a nankin color. The French 
Canadians use the flowers in salads and pickles, and, 
from their agreeable acid taste, both the flowers and the 
buds may be fried in butter and eaten the same as the 
siliquastrum. The flower-buds and pods may be pickled 
in vinegar. 
