The tree book - A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation (1920) (14783067035)

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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation

Year: 1920 (1920s)

Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866

Subjects: Trees

Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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iJ. Staminate flower A. Pistillate flower THE TUPELO or Pepperidge (Nyssa sylvatica) Flowers appear after the leaves in May. They are greenish and very small. Staminate trees bear crowded heads of6tamens only. Pistillate trees bear perfect flowers, i to 3 in a cluster. The sour, blue berries ripen in October. The foliage isthe glory of the tree, dark-green and glossy all summer, scarlet in autumn. The wood is especially dense and heavy

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Upper plate, fruit Lower plate, winter bud THE FLOWERING DOGWOOD (Cornus forida, The showy white flowers are but the expanded outer scales that enclosed the winter buds. The true flowers cluster in thecentre. Tne snmmg rea ocmes m October rival the brilliance of the foliage. The grey, checkered bark looks like rough alligatorskin. The tree is beautiful, winter or summer The Tupelos and the Dogwoods are chiefly shrubs, a few small trees, and all hardy and ornamental,with handsome foliage, flowers and fruits. An attractive char-acter is the vivid autumn foliage. From ancient times dogwoods have been planted as orna-mentals about homes, and in parks and pleasure grounds; tonicdrugs, dyes and inks have been derived from their bark; and thewood has been used for engravers blocks, tool handles, and inturnery. The name Cornus (from cornu, a horn) calls attention tothe hardness and toughness of the wood. Dogwood is oneof those unfortunate popular names fastened without reason upona family of

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