AILANTHUS; TREE OF HEAVEN (Ailanthus glandulosa, Desf.). 50 to 75 feet. A luxuriant, quick-growing, hardy tree, native of China, where it is a popular street tree in cities So it is in European centres. Leaves 12 to 30 inches long, a nail:EN, pointed leaflets, each plain margined, except for a pail f opposite notches near the base. Flowers of the two kinds on separate trees, in profuse clusters; staminate bloom rqa'odorous, but soon past; pistillate flowers inconspicuous, soon becoming showy against the dark leaves as the single seed develops in the centre of a narrow, flat wing, that passes from pale green into shades from pink to coppery red. The
tree looks like a huge hardy hydrangea, with fewer flower heads. A popular ornamental and shade tree in the Eastern States, and sparingly planted farther west. A fine shrub for screening unsightly objects, when cut back each year to the ground. The shoots that rise from the roots often grow ten feet in one season, and the leaves may exceed a yard in length.