. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OAK FAMILY Wood.âPale reddish brown, sapwood lighter ; heavy, hard, coarse-grained, checks badly in drying ; used for shingles and sometimes in construction. Sp. gt\, ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.âLight brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth inch long. Leaves.âAlternate, oblong or obovate, four to six inches long, one to two inches wide, wedge-shaped or rounded at base, acute or rounded at apex, sometimes entire or with undulated margins, some- times more or less three-lob
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OAK FAMILY Wood.âPale reddish brown, sapwood lighter ; heavy, hard, coarse-grained, checks badly in drying ; used for shingles and sometimes in construction. Sp. gt\, ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.âLight brown, ovate, acute, one-eighth inch long. Leaves.âAlternate, oblong or obovate, four to six inches long, one to two inches wide, wedge-shaped or rounded at base, acute or rounded at apex, sometimes entire or with undulated margins, some- times more or less three-lobed. They come out of the bud involute, bright red, covered with rusty down above and white tomentum be- low. When full grown are dark green, smooth and shining above, pale green or pale brown, downy below ; midribs stout yellow, grooved above, primary veins slender. In autumn they become dark red above, pale beneath, midribs darken, then the leaf. Petioles stout, hairy, flattened, grooved. Stipules about one-half inch long, caducous. Flowers.âMay, when leaves are half grown. Staminate flowers borne on tomentose aments two to three inches long. Bracts linear-lanceo- late. Calyx pale yellow, downy, four-lobed ; stamens four to five ; anthers yellow. Pistillate flowers borne on slender tomentose peduncles. Involucral scales are downy, about as long as the calyx lobes ; stigmas short, reflexed, green- ish-yellow. Acorns.âRipen in autumn of second year; stalked, solitary or in pairs ; nut almost spherical, one-half to two-thirds inch long ; cup embraces one-half to one-third nut, is cup-shaped covered with light red brown, downy scales, rounded or acute at apex. Kernel very hingle Oak, Querent vnbn W ti â carta. Acorns The Shingle Oak has a smooth bark and for three-fourths of its height is laden with branches. It has an uncouth form when bare in winter, but is beautiful in summer when clad in its thick tufted foliage. The leaves are long, lanceolate, entire, and ot a
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