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Forestry
. C^SALPINACE^ — SENNA FAMILY Red-Bud or Judas Tree. (Cercis canadensis) Small tree of bottom lands, rarely 50 feet high; so called from its abundant spring crop of tiny rosy blossoms, coming before the leaves, the latter 2 to 6 inches broad. "Judas tree" because it blushed when Judas hanged himself on it. (Keeler.) Its wood is dark, coarse and heavy. A cubic foot weighs 40 lbs. Pod I lite size
