This is a well-known American tree, better or more commonly known as the Locust. It grows very rapidly, in the early stages of its progress, so that in a few years, from seeds, plants of eight and ten feet high may be obtained. It is not uncommon to see shoots of this tree eight or ten feet high in one season. "The branches are furnished with very strong crooked thorns;1 the leaves are winged with eight or ten pairs of leaflets, egg-oblong, bright green, entire, and without foot-stalks. The flowers come out in the branches, in pretty long bunches, hanging down like those of the Laburnum. Each flower grows on a slender foot-stalk, smelling very sweet." The flowers are of a white color, and it blooms in June; and when the tree is in full bloom it makes a handsome appearance, and perfumes the whole air around.

The Acacia tree seems happily adapted to ornamental planting. Whether as a single tree upon the grass, feathering to the ground line, or as a standard in the shrubbery, towering above a monotonous mass of sombre evergreens, the Acacia has great charms for us, and may justly be called a graceful tree; and although its loose, light, and pleasing foliage admits the light, and seems to harmonize so delightfully with the polished lawn, or the highly cultivated shrubbery, yet we should like much to see the Acacia tree planted in the woods wherever forest timber is an object of attention. Its shade encourages the growth of grass. The Acacia trees, in their rapidity of growth, are exceeded only by a few of the poplar and willow tribes.