280 Trees for Shade and Ornament 
age persists through winter in Its younger stages. It is hardy as far as 
Ottawa and grows rapidly in rich, moist soil. 
Cercis. C. Canadensis Linn. (188), Red Bud, Judas Tree, is one of 
seven species, native and from southern Europe and Japan; a small 
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Fic, 97.—Cercidtphyllum Japonicum 3 & Z. 
(twenty-five to thirty feet) native tree of wide distribution from New 
Jersey south, but hardy farther north, and apt to “winter-kill” in un- 
protected situations. It is of roundish outline, and most pleasing and 
showy, not only in its profusion of bright pink to red flowers which in 
April before leafing adorn in a singular fashion the almost black-barked 
branches and even the trunk, but also in its round, somewhat heart- 
or kidney-shaped, glossy, dark, bluish-green foliage (May), light green 
