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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THE SPECKLED ALDER (Alnus incana) This is known by the white dots on its branches. A tree in Europe and Asia, it is rarely more than a shrub in America. The second trunk is of the shrubby Alnus rugosa
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The Beeches leaves, short-stemmed, in scaly involucre. Fruit, October, aprickly bur containing 2 triangular, pale-brown nuts, sweet,edible, in thin shells. Preferred habitat, rich river bottoms. Dis-tribution, Nova Scotia to Lake Huron, and northern Wisconsin;south to Florida, Missouri and Texas. Uses: Beautiful orna-mental and shade tree. Wood used for chairs, tool handles, planestocks, shoe lasts, and for fuel. Nuts fatten hogs, and feed wildanimals and birds. We have but one native beech, and it is a clannish tree. Findme a single specimen in the woods, and I will show you a miniatureforest of beeches springing up around it as soon as the tree comesinto bearing. Squirrels carry the nuts, so do the bluejays, andthe wind helps to scatter them. Beech nuts have much vitality,and the seedlings grow well, even in dense shade. This gives thema distinct advantage over the young of many other trees. Seedsof sun-loving species must fall in the clearings if they hope to grow.In a few years th

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