Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (find matches)
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. 192. Fruiting branchlet, i ; detached acorns showing laceration of cup, 2; branchlet inwinter, 3. 193. Trunk of tree in vicinity of Dismal Swamp, Va. Handbook of Teees of the Xoktherx Stat A.\i> Caxada. ITI The Overpup Oa\< is a tiPo Ordinnrily ofmedium statiiio. but rarely attains tlieheight of nearly 100 ft. with trunk 3 or 4 ft.in diameter. In its distribution it is confinedto swamps and low wet bottom-lands, oftenthat are more or less inundated during thegreater part of the year. Its associates inthese localities are the Water and LaurelOaks, Swamj) Bay. Tupelo Gum, Water Gum,Water Asli, River Birch, Cypress, etc. It isnot often found isolated from other trees, butwhen so it has a handsome oblong or roundedtop with more or less pendulous branchlets. The wood of the Overcup Oak is heavy, acubic foot when absolutely dry weighing 51.80lbs., hard, strong, and is durable in contactwith the soil. These desirable qualities makeit applicable to the same uses as those towhich th

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