Show tree THEE we are permuted jermit ted led says the pacific of september lith to make the following extract from tte tile tie notes noles orthe of the secretary oftie e state agricultural society who lias hast recently visited e d los angeles we lere liere saw a mesquite tree about nine feet high and ten acrons across etisa it is a beautiful tree producing a plentiful supply 0 beans which among t the tho of mexico are used for falling cattle cattie and when pou pounded tided thy they produce a ral rai fair r article of flour for bread broad nu no tree treed is more valuable bable in the de ert nor does aDyth anything lug surpass it as an ornamental si na ia is also very valuable as a hedge plant it is important that its worth for cattle 7 teed feed and hedging as well as an for purposes should bo be faithfully tried in tile the upper part pirt of the slate slata if it can call giet sitt st and nd the cold it witt will be found very hardy ill lii in every other respect it grows on almost any soil without water this and ind tiie llie cottonwood cotton cotlon wood are ara the only varieties of wood found in the tile colorado country the tree is of the tile accadia species avii g the appearance of all an inverted howl ti thae that I 1 a is it is semispherical semi spherical the tiie foliage very thick evergreen ITs dalmata or fernlike fern like leaf has from give five to twelve leaflets on each side of the axle the branches shoot out low those of a neglected scrub appio apple tree armed with cardsharp hard sharp harp thorns one variety 4 bears a screw shaped bonn benn the other one cue resembles the common string bean the tree free grows about twenty fire feet bih high seldom eldorn I 1 higher the gum is excellent for medical purposes and ud for pasting is equal to gum arabie arable which it resembles the tile gum exudes from all part Parts orthe ortho of the tho bark quite plentifully an indian will collect a double doable handful I 1 in half hall au an hour |