. iage is thicker, and of a dusky green. Theleaves are five or six inches long, and are com-posed of opposite leaflets, with a terminal oddone. The leaflets are about an inch in length,oval, nearly sessile, smooth, and of a fine tex-ture. The flowers usually appear in June andJuly, but in some seasons, they put forth a sec-ond time, both in England and in the UnitedStates. They occur in numerous, open bunches, four or five inches long, andare of a beautiful rose-colour, mixed with white, but are destitute of seeds, whi
. iage is thicker, and of a dusky green. Theleaves are five or six inches long, and are com-posed of opposite leaflets, with a terminal oddone. The leaflets are about an inch in length,oval, nearly sessile, smooth, and of a fine tex-ture. The flowers usually appear in June andJuly, but in some seasons, they put forth a sec-ond time, both in England and in the UnitedStates. They occur in numerous, open bunches, four or five inches long, andare of a beautiful rose-colour, mixed with white, but are destitute of seeds, which are small, are contained in hairy pods, two or three incheslong, and about half of an inch broad. Geography and History. In its natural habitat, this species appears to btchiefly confined to the Alleghanies, in the western parts of Georgia and the Car-olinas, although it is found on the banks of the rivers in these states, particularlyon the Savannah. It was introduced into Britain in 1797, and is much culti-vated for ornament in various parts of 210 ROBINIA VISCOSA. The largest recorded tree of this species in England, is at Croome, in Worces-tershire, which, in thirty years after planting, attained the height of forty-fivefeet. In Berkshire, at White Knights, there is another tree, which, in thirty-fouryears after planting, attained the height of thirty-three feet, with a trunk nineinches in diameter, and a spread of branches of twenty-four feet. Soil, Situation, Culture, <^c. The natural habitat of this tree is near rivers;but it will thrive in any soil where the common locust will prosper, and may bepropagated and treated in the same manner, its rate of growth, in different situ-ations and circumstances, being nearly the same for the first five or six years. Insects. The leaves of the Robinia viscosa are particularly relished by thelarva) of the great silver-spotted skipper butterfly, Papilio tityrus, of Smith andAbbot, or the Eudamus tityrus, of Harris. Th
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