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AROUND AN OLD HOMESTEAD. 



Fagaco" — Beech (plentiful). White, red, and yellow chest- 

 nut oak (a few left of each). 



Juglandacea — Black walnut (frequent). Shagbark and 

 pignut hickory (a dozen or so together, but with many sap- 

 lings). 



LeguminostT — Redbud, honey locust, black locust, coffee- 

 tree (quite a number of each). 



JJlmacece — White and slippery elm (both well represented). 



Oleacece — Blue and green ash (not uncommon). 



Rosacea — Shad bush (one little sapling). Wild plum 

 (two thickets). Wild red cherry (a small tree). Wild black 

 cherry (some beauties). 



Moraceee — Red mulberry (two big trees, and a few small 

 groves ) . 



Cornacea — Flowering dogwood (quite noticeable in the 

 spring). Sour gum (one solitary specimen). 



Betulacea — Ironwood, or hornbeam (some big enough for 

 wagon hubs). Blue, or water, beech (one tree only). 



Celastracea — ^Waahoo, or burning bush (along the old 

 wood roads). 



A nnonacea — Some scattering thickets of papaws. 



Lauracece — A clump of sassafras. 



Magnoliacea — Tulip-tree, or yellow poplar (two speci- 

 mens). 



Tiliacea — Basswood (one lone medium-sized fellow, per- 

 sisting tranquilly near some giant maples). 



And then, besides these, just across the road are a 

 couple of sycamores; along a brook only a few rods 

 away, in a field which originally was a part of the 

 woods, but which was long since cleared off, is a wil- 

 low; still farther off, in a former pasture, where also 

 blossoms the wild rose, are some buckeyes ; the common 

 elderberry and staghorn sumac skirt the hollows and 



