Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive

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Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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YELLOW BIRCH. GRAY BIRCH. Betula luiea Michx.
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Fig. 143. Branchlet with leaves and fruit, i; cone scales, 2; seeds, 3; branchlet bearing leavesand young staminate catkins for next seasons flowering, 4 ; branchlets in winter, two bearingyoung catkins, 5. 144. Trunk of tree, Lewis Co., N. Y. Handbook of Tkees of the jSTortiikkx KS AM) (ax AD The Yellow Bireh ia a large and importantforest tree of the nortiieastern states and theeastern provinces of Canada, sometimes at-taining the height of 100 ft. with trunk 3 or4 ft. in diameter. When isolated it developsa broad rounded top of many small straight-ish branches. Its peculiar bark is its moststriking feature and distinguishes it from allother trees of the forest. The bark on itsbranches and smaller trunks is very smoothand lustrous silvery or golden gray, breakingfinally as the trunk expands and rolling backin ribbon-like strips and curls, whicli long re-main attached rustling with every passingbreeze. On very old trunks the character ofthe bark is quite ditiercnt, as it is there rou

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