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The yellow locust is grown on Long Island. II was intro- 

 duced from North Carolina ahonl pi^e 1iiiikIit<I and fifty years 

 ago, and is greatly esteemed this vu-riety producing seed 

 very sparingly. 



The white locust is so called from the color of the hear) 

 wood. It grows in similar soil, hut is not very durable. This 

 variety is sometimes called seed locust, from the abundance of 

 seed which it produces. The locust may he propagated from 

 suckers, but is best grown from seed sown in the Spring, which 

 is usual h prepared for sowing by pouring boiling water upon 

 it and allowing it to stand until cool. The seed should then 

 he sown immediately. 



There is a species of hover " arliopalus robenise," peculiar 

 to the locust, which destroy many of these trees. 



The Maclura aurantiaca, or osage orange, is ;i pretty tree, 

 grown alone as a standard. When kept in shape I have seen 

 it throw shoots up ten feet long in one season. The flowers 

 are white and very small, hut the fruit is larger than an orange 

 and of a brilliant golden yellow. It is very ornamental. The 

 male and female flowers grow on different trees. It is sup- 

 posed that the leaves of this tree would he equally as good as 

 those of the white mulberry for feeding silk worms, as they 

 abound in a milky juice which is very tenacious. 



The Maclura succeeds better in a rather poor soil when grown 

 for hedge purposes, for which it is admirably adapted. Some 

 fine specimens of this tree may he seen in the neighborhood of 

 three arch bridge. 



Salisburia Acliantifolia, the Maiden Hair, or Ginkgo Tree. — 

 A fine specimen of this tree is to be found growing near the main 

 entrance hack of the thatched cottage on west walk. The 

 ginkgo has its origin in Japan, and in its native country is 

 said to grow to a very large size. It' is cultivated here as an 

 ornamental tree, and is admired for t\\r singularity of its 

 foliage. 



It is commonly propagated from layers or cuttings, hut it is 

 said that plants grown from seed become the finest trees, al- 

 though I have never seen a tree bearing seeds. The tree here 



