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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
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CHINQUAPIN. Castenea pumiJa (L.) Mill.
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157. Trunks of trees near Suffolk, Va. Handbook of Trees of the Xohthkkx Stat Can i:)7 The Chinquapin is a small tree and is ottenfound fruiting in abundance as a shrub.Under favorable conditions it attains theheight of 40 or 50 ft. and a trunk diameter of2 or 3 ft., but these dimensions are rare.Wlien isolated it develops a low broad roundedlup. similar tu tliat of the Chestnut, but nuuhsmaller. It inhabits dry hillsides and uplandsas well as rich bottom-lands and, like theChestnut, is of greatest beauty when in earlysummer, after the close of the flowering seasonof nearly all other trees, it puts out its numer-ous fragrant yellow catkins. In Septend)er itswell-guarded fruit, which it produces in abun-dance, is ripe and liberated, and this, thougha small nut, is deliciovis in flavor and is oc-casionally gathered for market. The wood is similar to that of the Chestnutwith very thin sap-wood, a cubic foot, whenabsolutely dry, weighing 36.69 lbs., and is usedfor fence posts, railway tie

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