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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THE BOX ELDER (Acer Negundo) The only maple with a compound leaf is this one. The opposite budsand leaves and the key fruits are family characteristics. These keys load theleafless pistillate trees well into winter. The wind scatters them, but thecurved stems persist until summer. THE BLACK MAPLE (Acer nigrum)A winter twig
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Fruit and leaf THE OHIO BUCKEYE (JEsculus glabra) Winter buds Five smooth leaflets compose each leaf. The flowers are yellowish green, with stamens curved and extended. They openafter the leaves in May, and the 3-valved spiny husk liberates the nut in October. The wood is used for artificial limbs The Buckeyes The tree occurs from Missouri to Texas and from near Memphis,Tennessee, to northern Alabama. ALseula carnea is a garden species produced by crossing ourshrubby red buckeye, A, Pavia, with the horse chestnut, A.Hippocasternum. , The handsome hybrid tree is 20 to 30 feet high,with leaves like the horse chestnut and flowers flesh coloured toscarlet. The colour is derived from the smaller species, but size,foliage, waxy winter buds, and slightly prickly fruit, as wellas its hardiness, come from the larger one. This is one of themost desirable kinds for ornamental planting. The Horse Chestnut (/Bseulus Hippoeastanum, Linn.) cameoriginally from southern Asia, and has for centuries bee

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