The tree book - A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation (1920) (14596293669)

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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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a dull scurfy down. The coarseness of the leaves is one trait that distinguishes thespecies from the red and scarlet oaks, whose leaves it often imitatesin form. Crumple a leaf of each in your hands. The red oakis intermediate between the leathery, harsh texture of the black,and the thinness and delicacy of the scarlet. The incisions inblack oak leaves are rounded and deep, their bristly lobes poinfoutward as often as they incline forward. The bloom of black oak may be profuse or scant; the treehas its off years. As the leaves lose their red the flowerstake up the theme, and glow with ruddy stigmas and fringedtassels of stamens among the half-grown foliage. The lustiestshoots set acorns—sometimes a pair under each leaf. Whilethe new ones are swelling and forming their little basal cups, ontwigs a year older ambitious acorns of a larger growth are hurryingthrough their second summer to be ready to fall in October. This species is the type of the black or biennial-fruited oaks— 216
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THE BLACK OAK (Quercus veluttna) The leaves have squarish lobes, coarse, rough texture and often brownish linings, with tufts of rusty hairs in the anglesof the veins. They turn to dull red or brownish orange. The under bark is orange-coloured. The acorns sit in cups of loosely6hingled scales which form a fringe at the margin. The buds are large, ovate, with a hoary covering of fine hairs