. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. AILANTHUS. TREE-OF-HEAVEN. Aihnthus glandulosus Fig. 352. Branch bearing mature leaxes and fruit, i , detached samars, 2; branchlet in winter, 3- 353. Trunk in southern Ilhnois, opposite St. Loui^. 354. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. i Handbook of Trees of the Northeen States and Canada, 303 The Ailanthus is a handsome naturalized tretsometimes attaining, in its native land, theheight of 80 or 100 ft. with ratlier loose open topand trunk 2 to 3 or more feet in thickness. Its
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. AILANTHUS. TREE-OF-HEAVEN. Aihnthus glandulosus Fig. 352. Branch bearing mature leaxes and fruit, i , detached samars, 2; branchlet in winter, 3- 353. Trunk in southern Ilhnois, opposite St. Loui^. 354. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. i Handbook of Trees of the Northeen States and Canada, 303 The Ailanthus is a handsome naturalized tretsometimes attaining, in its native land, theheight of 80 or 100 ft. with ratlier loose open topand trunk 2 to 3 or more feet in thickness. Itslarge plume-like leaves are familiar objects in thedoor-yards and parks of many of our easterntowns, giving a tropical apptnirunce scarcelyequaled by any other tree of like is its ornamental value in lute summeroften surpassed by any ntlicr tree, when it?frond-like foliage is interspersed with largebunches of brilliantly colored fruit. It is par-ticularly well adapted to planting for shadeand ornamental i)urposos, being a hardy treoof very rapid growth and little affected by thedust and smoke of cities. For this purpose,however, only the pi
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