Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs · Chapter 97Gleditschia
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GLEDITSCHIA TRIACANTHOS.—Honey Locust. United States, 1700. As an ornamental hardy tree this is well worthy the attention of planters, the pinnate and bipinnate foliage being particularly elegant, while the flowers, though individually small, are borne in such quantities of fascicled racemes as to attract notice. The stem and branches are armed with formidable prickles, but there is a form in which the prickles are absent. A native of North America, and readily cultivated in any soil of even fair quality. For town planting it is a valuable tree. There is a good weeping variety named G. triacanthos pendula.
G. SINENSIS (syn G. horrida).—China, 1774. This nearly resembles the latter, and is occasionally to be met with in cultivation in this country.