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Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana L.). 



A small tree that is too well known to need description. It is 

 very plentiful in Hartsville, much more so than near the coast. 

 The fruit varies greatly in size, quality and time of ripening. 

 Some become quite sweet and ripe before frost; others never lose 

 their astringency. 



Horse Sugar (Symplocos tinctoria (L.) UHer). 



A shrub or small tree with reddish-gray bark. The leaves 

 average about four and one-half inches in length, are alternate, 

 thick, oblong, slightly toothed on the margin, and sweet to the 

 taste. The small, light-yellow flowers are fragrant and rather 

 conspicuous in mass, and are borne in little clusters on the twigs. 

 The fruit is a small, oblong, greenish drupe about three-quarter 

 inches long. The horse sugar is common on edges of ba} r s and in 

 flat woods. It is partially evergreen. 



White Ash (Fraxinus Darlingtonii Britton). 



A fine tree with opposite, compound leaves and small, dry fruit 

 about an inch long, that is winged at the end. The leaflets are 

 obovate-lanceolate, with nearly entire margins and smooth 

 beneath. So far we have found but a single wild tree, and that 

 grows on the edge of the large ditch that separates the Upper 

 Farm from the old Xorwood Place. This tree has been deter- 

 mined solely from the leaves and it is possible it may prove to be 

 F. Pennsylvania a, if indeed the two are really distinct. 



Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides Walt.). 



A small tree with very large leaves that are broad at base, 

 pointed at the end and without lobes or teeth. The large, con- 

 spicuous flowers are white with yellow and purple spots in the 

 corolla. The fruit is a long, slender, woody pod containing many 

 winged seeds. The catalpa is a rare tree in our area and is con- 

 fined to new-made soil at bases of hills and gullies, and along 

 washed banks of branches. Specimens may be found at the Snake 

 Branch crossing on Home avenue and at the foot of the hill east 

 of the old Bacot house. 



Black Haw (Viburnum rufidulum Raf.). 



A small spreading tree with opposite, oblong leaves about two 

 and one-half to three inches long, that are not lobed. but fur- 

 nished with small, sharp teeth. The veins beneath and the leaf- 

 stalk, which is winged, are covered with soft reddish-brown hairs. 



