Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive (1907) (14785120515)
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Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries
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Fig. 262. Branchler with mature leaves and fruit, i ; fruiting head with empty capsules andscattered spurious seeds, 2 ; branch showing corky growth, 3 ; fertile and spurious seeds enlargedabout two diameters, 4 ; smooth and corky branchlets in winter, s and 6. 263. Large trunk, in southeastern Missouri. 264. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Teees of the Norti This large and beautiful tree in the southernforests attains tlie hciglit of 100 to 140 ft.with straight cuhininar trunk 4 or 5 ft. indiameter. When isolated it develops a sym-metrical oblong-pyramidal top when young, butfinally becoming broad and rounded. A pe-culiar feature, more marked in some trees thanothers, however, and often entirely wanting, isthe growth of wing-like projections of thebark from its smaller branches. It tlirivesbest in the rich soil of bottom-lands where itis associated with the Red and Black Maples,the Sour, Water and Tupelo Gums, the Laureland Water Oaks, various Ashes, etc. Fewtrees