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its growth is wonderfully vigorous, and an immense number 
may be grown upon a small area of ground. In clayey, 
heavy, or strong loamy soils, the tree never attains much 
size, and is extremely liable to the attacks of the borer, 
which renders its wood in a great measure valueless. In 
particularly favourable situations, its culture may be made 
extremely profitable.* 
There are but two distinct species of locust which attain 
the size of trees in this country, viz: the Yellow locust, (R. 
pseud-acacia ,) so called from the colour of its wood ; and the 
Honey locust, ( R . viscosa,) a smaller tree, with reddish flow- 
ers, and branches covered with a viscid honey-like gum. 
Some pretty varieties of the former have been originated in 
gardens abroad, among which the Parasol locust, ( Var. um - 
braculifera ,) is decidedly the most interesting. We recollect 
some handsome specimens which were imported by the late 
M. Parmentier, and grew in his garden at Brooklyn, Long 
Island. They were remarkable for their unique, rounded, 
umbrella-like heads, when grafted ten or twelve feet high on 
the common locust. 
William Cobbett.’ What he will say of me besides, I do not know ; but I know 
he will say this of me. I enter this upon account, therefore, knowing that I am 
writing for centuries to come.” ! ! For a fuller account of his locust frenzy, we 
refer our readers to the very complete article on Robinia, in that magnificent 
work, the “Arboretum Britannicum.” 
* There is a well known instance of the profit of this tree, which we perceive 
has found its way into the memoirs of the Agricultural Society of Paris. A 
farmer on Long Island, some sixty years ago, on the year of his marriage, planted 
fourteen acres of his farm with the Yellow locust. When his eldest son married 
at twenty-two, he cut twelve hundred dollars worth of timber from the field, as 
a marriage portion, which he gave his son to buy a settlement in Lancaster 
County, Pennsylvania, then considered a part of the “ western country.” Three 
years after, the locust grove yielded as much for a daughter ; and in this way 
his whole family were provided for ; as the rapidity with which the young suckers 
grew up, fully repaired the breaches made in the fourteen acres. 
