Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (
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Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptiveYear:
1907 (
1900s)Authors:
Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924Subjects:
Trees -- North AmericaPublisher:
Lowville, N. Y., The authorContributing Library:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:CHINQUAPIN. Castenea pumiJa (L.) Mill.Text Appearing After Image:157. Trunks of trees near Suffolk, Va. Handbook of Trees of the Xohthkkx Stat Can i:)7 The Chinquapin is a small tree and is ottenfound fruiting in abundance as a shrub.Under favorable conditions it attains theheight of 40 or 50 ft. and a trunk diameter of2 or 3 ft., but these dimensions are rare.Wlien isolated it develops a low broad roundedlup. similar tu tliat of the Chestnut, but nuuhsmaller. It inhabits dry hillsides and uplandsas well as rich bottom-lands and, like theChestnut, is of greatest beauty when in earlysummer, after the close of the flowering seasonof nearly all other trees, it puts out its numer-ous fragrant yellow catkins. In Septend)er itswell-guarded fruit, which it produces in abun-dance, is ripe and liberated, and this, thougha small nut, is deliciovis in flavor and is oc-casionally gathered for market. The wood is similar to that of the Chestnutwith very thin sap-wood, a cubic foot, whenabsolutely dry, weighing 36.69 lbs., and is usedfor fence posts, railway tieNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.