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American ascending Bark base berry Birch Black bloom blue branches branchlets bright broad broadly central clusters coarse coast common commonly cones Crataegus cubic foot cultivation curved dark deep green distributed downy drooping dull eastern elliptical FAMILY feet high fine-hairy Flowers Fruit gray grows hard inches long Lake lance-shaped leaves less light brown lobes lustrous Maple Mass Minn mountains narrow narrowly nearly Newf northern obovate occasionally olive green ovate ovoid pale paler beneath Pine pink pistillate pointed range rarely rich ridges River rocky rough rounded ruddy scales seeds short shrub side similar slender slightly small tree smooth soft soil sometimes southeastern southern species spreading staminate stems swamps sweet teeth Tenn thick thin Thorn toothed toothless tree trunk diameter twigs Valley veins weight western Willow wood yellow yellow green young
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Page 179 - ... of 40 and a diameter of 1 foot. It occurs from western New York and the northern shores of Lake Ontario, southward to central and eastern Pennsylvania, westward to southern Michigan, southern Indiana and eastern Kansas, and south to middle Florida and eastern Texas. It is comparatively rare toward the Atlantic seaboard, but very common in the Mississippi valley, reaching its best development along the tributaries of the lower Ohio river and the streams of central and southern Arkansas, where...
Page 300 - ACER PENNSYLVANICUM, L. Striped Maple. Moosewood. Geographic Distribution. Usually in the shade of other trees, often forming in northern New England a large part of their shrubby undergrowth; shores of Ha-Ha Bay, Quebeck, westward along the shores of Lake Ontario and the islands of Lake Huron to northeastern Minnesota, and southward through the Atlantic states and along the Appalachian mountains to northern Georgia; common In the north Atlantic states, especially in the interior and elevated regions;...
Page 58 - Mass, and along the St. Lawrence River in southern Canada to central Mich., and also farther south. At Washington, DC, there is a splendid avenue of the trees on the grounds of the Agricultural Dept. 1 Vide, Ernest E. Wilson, in the National Geographic Mag., Nov., 1911 2 Vide, Downing's Landscape Gardening, p.
Page 44 - Naturally is grows on the borders of streams or in moist, fertile soil and is sometimes found on dry gravelly hills. The wood is coarse-grained, hard, strong, and very durable in contact with the soil. It is used for fence posts, wheel-hubs, fuel and in construction.
Page 172 - Ill., and south along the Alleghany Mts. to Stockton, Baldwin Co. southern Ala. Meridian and Lauderdale, eastern Miss, central Ky. Nashville (and eastern) Tenn., and eastern, southern, and southwestern Ark. In NC it is confined to the mountain region, where it develops a height of 80 feet and a trunk diameter of 4 feet. It is thinly scattered in Ky. and Tenn. but attains its greatest proportions in the mountains of the Carolinas and Tenn. The wood is soft, light (29 Ibs. to the cubic foot), closegrained,...
Page 196 - It is found growing from southern Greenland to Labrador and northern New England along the northern shores of the Great Lakes to Little Slave Lake through the Rocky Mountains to Alaska and northeastern Asia. In Minnesota it is common northward extending south to Lake Itasca and rarely found farther south.