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Title: The woods and by-ways of New England
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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thoseproportions we admire in other trees. It rears its tallform, withered, shapeless, and deprived of many valuableparts, without proportional breadth, and wanting in anydefinite character of outline. Through all the early-weeks of spring we might still suppose it would neverrecover its beauty. But May hangs on those witheredboughs a green drapery that hides all their deformity;she infuses into their foliage a perfection of verdure thatno other tree can rival, and a beauty in the forms of itsleaves that renders it one of the chief ornaments ofthe groves and waysides. June weaves into this greenleafage pendent clusters of flowers of mingled brown andwhite, filling the air with fragrance, and enticing the beewith odors as sweet as from groves of citron and myrtle. The finely cut and delicate foliage of the Locust andits jewelled white flowers, hanging gracefully among itsdark green leaves, yield it a peculiar style of beauty, andremind us of some of the finer vegetation of the tropics.
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THE LOCUST. 137 The leaflets, varying in number from nine to twenty-five on a common stem, have a singular habit, of foldingover each other in wet and dull weather and in the night,thus displaying a sensitiveness that is remarkable in all theacacia family. The Locust is not highly prized by land-scape gardeners, who cannot reconcile its defects to theirserpentine walks and their velvety lawns. But I am notsure that the accidental deformities of the Locust maynot contribute to its picturesque attractions, when, for ex-ample, from its furrowed and knotted trunk a few imper-fect limbs project, and suspend over our heads a littlecanopy of the finest verdure. Phillips says of the Locust, that, when planted in shrub-beries, it becomes the favorite resort of the nightingale, toavail itself of the protection afforded by its thorns. Thereare many other small birds that seek the protection ofthorny bushes for their nests. On the borders of woods,a barberry or hawthorn bush is more frequently se

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