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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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irs whichoverlap its neighbours, so that each side of each leaf is amplyprotected by a furry cover. As the leaf spreads itself it graduallybecomes accustomed to the air and the sunshine, and the protectinghairs disappear. Occasionally a leaf that is in a shaded and pro-tected situation on the tree may keep its hairs on the ribs untilmidsummer. As the leaves lift themselves into independent life the blossomsof the beech appear. Few people see them. The staminate onesare in little heads swung on slender stems. When they shed theiryellow pollen they fall off. In twos the pistillate flowers hide nearthe ends of twigs. Those which catch pollen on their extrudedtongues set seed and mature into the triangular nuts, two ineach of the burs. Early in the autumn the burs open and thenuts fall, to the great delight of boys and girls as well as the littlepeople of the woods. Though small, the nuts are very rich andfine in flavour. The beech is the most elegantly groomed of all the trees of the 184
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A. Staminate flower B. Pistillate flower THE BEECH (Fagus Americana) The fine-textured bark varies from dark gray to almost white. The buds are long and pointed and shining goldenbrown. The prickly 4-valved pod remains long after the two triangular nuts have fallen out. The opening shoots are beautifulin May, the pendant staminate heads are as soft and silky as rhe baby leaves. The pistillate flowers, solitary or paired, stand ipthe angles of the uppermost leaves pr**-: 1

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