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clusters are six or eight inches in length, aiad quite broad, 
the flowers daintily formed, and arranged in a much more 
graceful, loose, and easy manner, than those of the locust. 
They have a very agreeable, slight perfume, especially in 
the evening, and the whole effect of the tree, when 
standing singly on a lawn and filled with blossoms, is 
highly elegant. 
When the blossoms disappear, they are followed by the 
pods, about the fourth of an inch wide, and three or four 
inches long, containing a few seeds. These ripen in July 
or August. 
This tree is frequently called the Yellow-wood in its 
native haunts — its heart wood abounding in a fine yellow 
coloring matter, which, however, is said to be rather 
difficult to fix, or render permanent. The bark is 
beautifully smooth, and of a greenish grey color. In 
autumn, the leaves, when they die off, take a lively yellow 
tint. 
This tree grows pretty rapidly, and is very agreeable in 
its form and foliage, even while young. It commences 
flowering when about ten or fifteen feet high, and we can 
recommend it with confidence to the amateur of choice 
trees as worthy of a conspicuous place in the smallest 
collection. 
The only species known is Virgilia lutea. It was first 
described by Michaux, and was sent to England about 
the year 1812 . Quite the finest planted specimens within 
our knowledge are growing in some of the old seats in the 
northern suburbs of Philadelphia, where there are several 
thirty or forty feet in height, and exceedingly beautiful, 
both in their form and blossoms. A small specimen 
on our lawn, eighteen feet high, blossoms now very pro- 
fusely. 
