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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smooth,dark yellow-green; lighter and sometimes tufted with hairs inaxils of veins beneath; upper leaflets much larger than lower ones.Flowers: staminate catkins, axillary, 4 to 7 inches long, in threes;pistillate spikes, 3 to 5-flowered, terminal, greenish. Fruit pearshaped, or globose; variable, thick or thin shelled, reddish brown,somewhat hairy, cleft into 4 valves, partially or wholly opening;nut obscurely 4-angled, smooth; kernel sweet or slightly bitter,small. Preferred habitat, dry ridges and hillsides. Distribution,Maine to Florida; west through Ontario and Michigan to Nebraska,south to eastern Texas. Uses: Wood used as that of shagbark is.A valuable ornamental and shade tree. The pignut is unfortunate in its common name. A fine parkand shade tree is under a severe handicap. For who would wish apignut planted in his front yard? A smooth hickory willrather be chosen, every time—though it is the very same tree,H. glabra. In the early days pigs turned into the autumn woods 134
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Fertile flower THE PIGNUT (Hicoria glabra) The tree is draped with green fringe—the staminate catkins—in May. The first leaves usually have but five leaflets.Later ones have seven, rarely nine. They are smooth and turn yellow in autumn. The buds are plump, and small for a hickory;the outer scales are shed early in winte?. The bark is furrowed and gray. This twig has no pistillate flowers

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