KENTUCKY YELLOW-WOOD 
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upon even small plants that their profusion 
attracts notice no less than the distinct colour 
of the foliage. But its beauty of leaf is most 
marked in spring, when the young leaves and 
branches are covered with a silky greyish 
should not grow as large as in Amurland 
and Manchuria, where trees of 40 feet are 
not uncommon, though even in old trees 
the stem is rarely more than 6 inches in 
diameter. 
The Siberian Yellow-Wood 
( C/ ad7-astis a in tire lis is ) . 
sheen, changing to a delicate purplish shade 
as the leaves shake out of their folds into the 
sunlight. The tree is of fairly rapid growth, 
doing best in warm dry soils, and increased 
from seed, or by grafting upon the Sophora. 
There are as yet no full-grown trees in this 
country, but there seems no reason why it 
First introduced in 1880, and known for a 
time as Maackia amurensis. A variety, Buer- 
ger}^ from Japan, has leaves covered with soft 
hairs on their under side. This plant may also 
be raised from root-cuttings, dug up in autumn, 
and kept moist and fairly cool in sand or moss 
until early spring. B. 
