YELLOW WOOD. 
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which they have themselves collected and sown, have produced the Locust. 
The difference between the two species is however so distinctly character- 
ized, that this metamorphosis is hardly credible. 
The wood of the Rose-flowering Locust is of a greenish color, like that 
of the common species, which it resembles also in its other properties : but 
the inferior size of the tree, notwithstanding its surprisingly rapid growth, 
renders it less interesting to the arts. 
This species easily supports the rigorous winters of New York and Penn- 
sylvania, where it succeds perfectly well ; several stocks sent by my father 
to his friends residing in those capitals, bloom luxuriantly every year : but 
it is liable to the ravages of the same insect which destroys the Locust. 
This beautiful tree was introduced into Europe in 1791 : my father, who 
had transported it from the mountains to his garden near Charlestown, S. C., 
sent me a stock, which arrived in July of that year. I presented it to M. 
Lemonnier, chief physician of Lewis XVI., who planted it in his garden at 
Petit Montreuil, near Versailles, where it is still standing. From this stock 
are derived, by sprouts or by grafting, all the trees of the species which at 
present adorn the pleasure grounds throughout Europe. 
PLATE LXXVII. 
A branch with flowers of the natural size. Fig. 1, Apod. Fig. 2, A seed . 
YELLOW WOOD. 
Virgilia lutea. V. foliis impari-pinnatis, foliolis ovato-acuminatis ; racemis 
pendulis; gemmis inclusis. 
Obs. Flores albi. 
The Yellow Wood is confined to that part of West Tennessee which 
lies between the 35th and the 37th degrees of latitude, where it is com- 
monly designated by the name which I have adopted. 
