. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. PEA FAMILY rapidity at first may retard the growth later ; fo. inless these spreading roots are allowed ample space on every side thev soon exhaust the soil within reach. On the other hand trees whose roots penetrate deep as well as wide grow more slowly and also more steadily, and other things be- ing equal attain the larger size. A smgle Locust, given a free hand and good soil, will soon produce a thicket; for the roots creeping along the upper layers of the soil send up numerous shoo
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. PEA FAMILY rapidity at first may retard the growth later ; fo. inless these spreading roots are allowed ample space on every side thev soon exhaust the soil within reach. On the other hand trees whose roots penetrate deep as well as wide grow more slowly and also more steadily, and other things be- ing equal attain the larger size. A smgle Locust, given a free hand and good soil, will soon produce a thicket; for the roots creeping along the upper layers of the soil send up numerous shoots which cpiickly set up in life for themselves. The fo- liage effect of such a thicket is most beautiful. The leaves are compound with delicate, dark green leaflets. New leaves are put forth until past midsummer and these being a light j-ellow green stand out against the dark background of the older leaves, giving the color effect of a mass of soft velvety greens of varied values. Then, too, the leaves respond to a light breeze so quickly, the leaf surface is so smooth, the leaf texture so fine, that the tree is always clean even in dusty places. Loudon reports that a plantation of locusts, Scotch pines, sycamores, limes, chestnuts, beeches, ashes, and oaks was made near Kensington, London, in 1S12 and that the trees were measured in 1827, when it was found that the locust had grown faster than any one kind of the other trees in the proportion of 27 to 22, and faster than the average of them in the proportion of 27 to 18. But this was a case where the race was not to the swift, for at the end of forty years the locusts had been over-topped and ultimately they were destroyed by the other trees. All the beauty of the Locust comes when it is in leaf; the 100. Raceme of Locust Blossoms,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly rese
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