REDBUD; Jur N.s TREE (Ceris Canadensis, Linn.). 25 to 50 feet. Dainty ..ree with broad, flat head of smooth, thorn less, angular branches. Bark red-brown, furrowed closely and deeply, and into scaly plates. Wood red-brown, hard, close-grained, weak, with thin sapwood. Leaves broadly heart-shaped or ovate, short-pointed, with plain margin, smooth, alternate, on slender stalks, yellow in autumn. Length and breadth 3 to 5 inches. Flowers before leaves, in April, in a:ciliary clusters, each on stalk, of the pea-biossom type, rose pink to purple, coloring the whole tree. Fruit a thin, pointed,
flat pod, purple, shining, 2 or 3 inches long, many-seeded, per sistent, shedding seeds all winter. Dist.: Stream borders, under other trees, New Jersey to Florida; west from Ontario to Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. Desirable flowering tree for lawns and parks.