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two feet. In the autumn these leaves turn to a peculiar 
bronze red touched with yellow which makes the tree con- 
spicuous and beautiful. 
The flowers are creamy white and ap- 
pear in great, loose, flower clusters at the 
very summit of the stem. You have 
watched the tree all summer, June has 
come and gone, July is well under way, 
all other flowering trees are even now 
maturing their fruit, when, suddenly, the 
Hercules’ Club shows signs of bloom and 
sometimes in July, often im August and 
even in September, the helated flowers 
come forth. The blooming spray, like the 
leaf, is enormous, sometimes rising three 
or tour feet above the spreading ‘leaves. 
Many of the flowers are sterile, so there is 
Hercules’ Club, Araia spi- 
dine Banesivag Ne such generous productien of fruit as 
might be expected, but there is consider- 
able. he littie black drupes ripen quickiy and hang in 
clusters upon the tree all winter long, for their flesh is so 
thin that they do not commend themselves to the birds. 
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