Identifier: treebookpopularg1920roge (find matches)
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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ender, with adiameter of a foot or less, have sprung up from the roots of theold tree. Specimens 10 feet in diameter were not unusual in thevirgin forests, though the tallest ones were usually more slender. The tannic acid in chestnut wood is what preserves it fromdecay in contact with the soil. Because of its durability it islargely cut for railroad ties and posts. It is well worthy of culti-vation as a lumber tree. In woodwork and furniture chestnut isalmost as handsome as oak. The chestnut is a valuable nut tree.Had it none of these merits it would still be saved from the saw inmany instances because the landscape can ill afford to lose a fineold chestnut tree. The Chinquapin (C. pumila, Mill.) is the chestnut in minia-ture—rarely a tree of medium height and spreading habit—usuallya shrub that seizes the land by its suckering roots, and forms thick-ets on hillsides and bare ridges or on the margins of swamps. Itis found from Pennsylvania to Florida, and west to Arkansas and 188
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FTowertnp branch A. Pist.late flowers THE CHESTNUT (Castanea dentata) B. Staminate floweri Two or three flat-sided, silky nuts are exposed when the 4-valved spiny burs open in October. In July the green leavesare gilded by the profusion of staminate flower spikes that are waved like plumes of yellow chenille fringe at the ends of theiwigs. Very inconspicuous green spikes, sparsely flowered, bear solitary green pistillate flowers at their bases. The yellowthreads extruded from the tip of each spiny oval cone are the stigmas eager to catch pollen

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