The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation

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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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, white, far more beautiful, but always in such small-sized pieces that only curious and dainty articles could be made ofit. Often it was worked down so thin that when polished it wastransparent, and showed its beautiful patterns as if they were ina pane of glass. The Pavonaceous maple was that rare grain whose elegantcurls and undulations imitated the eyes of a peacocks tail.Workers in maple wood ranked with jewellers and goldsmiths.They made tables with the most beautiful colours and patternsrevealed by their polished tops. For such a table Cicero paidten thousand sesterces. It showed curious spots and macula-tions in the natural grain which imitated the colours and shapesof tigers and panthers! One of the Ptolemies had a circulartable three inches thick and four feet and a half in diameter forwhich he gave its weight in gold! Fifteen hundred thousandsesterces—$60,000—paid by this emperor for a single table,probably represents the limit to which this extravagance wascarried. 380
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THE STRIPED MAPLE (Acer Pennsylvanicum) The bell-shaped flowers with bright yellow petals hang in graceful clusters below the opening leaves about the last week inMay. Pistillate and staminate flowers are in separate clusters on the same tree

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