ROBFNIA HISTIDA. 
HISPID ROSE-ACACIA. 
Class, Order. 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Carolina. 
10 feet. 
May to Sept- 
Perennial. 
in 1743. 
No. 917. 
The name, Robinia, was adopted by Linneus in 
honour of Jean Robin, a French botanist, herbalist 
to Henry IV. of France. He was the first culti- 
vator of the Acacia pseudo-acacia, a tree which 
many of our readers will recollect, when we remind 
them of the mania which was excited twenty years 
ago, by Cobbet, who propagated and sold it in 
immense quantities, under the name of the Ameri- 
can Locust Tree. It shall, ere long, be figured. 
The Robinia hispida, or Rose-Acacia, is tolerably 
well known ; but from its brittleness is often bro- 
ken and destroyed. In the Arboretum Britannicum 
of Mr. Loudon, we find some practical remarks on 
this plant ; but we cannot refer to this admirable 
work without joining in the regret that death has 
just deprived our country of its talented author — 
one of its most valuable and indefatigable labourers 
in horticultural literature. The unwearied exer- 
tions of Mr. Loudon have, we sincerely believe, 
been mainly instrumental in effecting the rapid 
progress made in gardening within the last twenty 
years. Talents so diversified are rarely combined 
in a single individual. 
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