. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Derirnlions. The sperinc name is derivnil frcim the Persian, azadi-Jurukhl, whirh fiic;nifies iha troc of pre-eminence Tlic German name signihcs Palerrinsiertree, in allusion lo the nuls of this tree Iwing used for roaarioa. The Spanish name Arbol d/^ i'amiso, signihea tree of I'aradiHe. ' ' â &
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Derirnlions. The sperinc name is derivnil frcim the Persian, azadi-Jurukhl, whirh fiic;nifies iha troc of pre-eminence Tlic German name signihcs Palerrinsiertree, in allusion lo the nuls of this tree Iwing used for roaarioa. The Spanish name Arbol d/^ i'amiso, signihea tree of I'aradiHe. ' ' â ""â¢â¢â¢Â« Engravings. Michaux North American Sylva, pi. 102; Audubon, Rirds of America, pi. Ixiii.; Loudon, Arboretum Britan- nicum, 1. figure 1J81 and the figures below. ' un. ijiimn Specific Characters. Leaves deciduous; leaflets about 5-together, glabrous, obliquely ovate-lanceolate acuminate ; petals (lilac) nearly glabrous.âTurrcy and Gray, Flora. ' Description. I HE Molia azedarach, in favourable situations, often attains a height _- .â=_>_ ^..,-xâ~^â«â of thirty or forty feet, with a trunk fifteen or twenty inches in diam- eter ; but when standing alone, it usually rests at a smaller elevation, and diffuses itself into a spreading summit, with a stem six or eight feet in circumference. Its leaves are of a dark-green, large, doubly-pinnate, and com- posed of smooth, acuminate, or obliquely-acu- minate, denticulated leaflets. The leaves change colour, and fall, with the slightest cold, almost without frost, which usually takes place in the southern states in Novem- ber or December. When in bloom, it has some resemblance to tlie lilac. The flowers, which appear in March, April or May, form beautiful axillary clusters at the extremity of the shoots, and exhale a delicious odour. The fruit is round, or oblong, of a yel owish colour when ri])c, and about the size of a common cherry. The nut or kernel of the fruit ks of a brownisli colour, and is s
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