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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
three-lobed, all on the same stem, as shown by Fig. 135. They 
are smaller than those of the true mulberry, of a bluish-green color, 
and somewhat downy or hoary on the surface. The tree quickly 
forms a neat umbrella-shaped top, from twelve to twenty feet high, 
and grows in the neighborhood of Philadelphia to the height of 
forty to fifty feet. From the rapidity of its growth it is adapted to 
make verdant masses for screens, and has been used with good 
effect for this purpose in the New York Central Park, where it 
seems to be hardy. 
Fig. 136. 
AN OSAGE ORANGE IN THE OLD BARTRAM GARDEN. 
THE OSAGE ORANGE. Madura. 
This tree, much used of late years for farm and garden hedges, 
when grown singly, is one of the most remarkable of small trees. 
Its glossy orange-like foliage is so brilliant, and its erratic luxuri¬ 
ance of growth so extraordinary, that it is difficult to realize that 
plants of the same tree can be confined within the formal limits of 
a narrow hedge. 
The Osage orange is a native of Missouri and Arkansas, and it 
