Identifier: timbertreesfores01pinc (find matches)
Title: Timber trees and forests of North Carolina
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932, joint author
Subjects: Trees Forests and forestry
Publisher: Winston, M. I. & J. C. Stewart, public printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t, it is found in the Piedmont plateau as far east as Surry andMecklenburg, and thence westward it is not uncommon, especiallyalong the upper portions of the water courses. The silverbell tree produces seed every tw^o or three yearsand young plants are common in damp shady woods. Specimensover one foot in diameter are apt to be hollow. The thin leaves are finely serrate, light green above, pale,and slightly downy below. The flowers, which appear withthe leaves in spring, are white, bell-shaped, and are borne byslender drooping stems. The large dry fruit, about IJ incheslong, has four wings and contains a bony nut. The hairy winter-buds are small, obtuse, and dark red or light brown. The wood is light, soft, close-grained, compact, light brownin color; the sapwood lighter. It has no uses in North Carolina. Praxinus americana, LinnEeus.(white ash.)A large tree of the first commercial value, with stout, apright *Halesia tetraptera, Linnajus. N. C GEOLOGICAL StTRVEY, BULLETIN 6. PLATE VI.
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WHITE ASH WHITE ASH. 71 or spreading branches and grayish furrowed bark, reacliing aheight of 120 and a diameter of 6 feet. (Plate VI.) It grows in low, rather moist soil, from Nova Scotia to northernMinnesota, southward to .northern Florida, central Alabama andMississippi, and west to eastern Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Terri-tory, and eastern Texas ; reaching its best development in thebasin of the Ohio river. In North Carolina, where it grows to an average height of50 to 80 and a diameter of 2 to 3 feet, it occurs throughout theStale. (Fig. 12.) MAP OF NOKTH CAROLINA SCALE COASTAL PLAIN REGION _

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