Several American trees were planted in the ground by Cobbett, of which only one survives, a hickory, together with some straggling bushes of robinia, which Cobbett thought would make good hedges, being very thorny, and throwing up suckers freely, but the branches proved too brittle to be useful.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
The pasture oak and beech show a breadth of grain-and, of course, an annual increment-twice as great as trees of the same species grown in the woods; and the American locust, robinia pseudacacia, the wood of which is of extreme toughness and durability, is, of all trees indigenous to North-eastern America, by far the most rapid in growth.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
Probably the pitch-pine of the Northern States, in conjunction with some of the American oaks, birches, and poplars, and especially the robinia or locust, would prove very suitable to be employed on the sand-hills of Cape Cod and Long Island.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh