. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. ^ i88 TRKES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. North Carolina, there is standing a tulip tree that is thought to be the largest one in America. In girth it is thirty-one feet at a distance of ten feet from the ground, and it stands up- wards of one hundred and fifty feet high. In that rugged place, at an elevation of three thousand feet above the sea level, it raises a clear and straight shaft which is also hollow. What is the tree's history, no one knows. WHITE OAK. (P/nfc XCIX.) Qiiihrus alba. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM lu
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. ^ i88 TRKES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. North Carolina, there is standing a tulip tree that is thought to be the largest one in America. In girth it is thirty-one feet at a distance of ten feet from the ground, and it stands up- wards of one hundred and fifty feet high. In that rugged place, at an elevation of three thousand feet above the sea level, it raises a clear and straight shaft which is also hollow. What is the tree's history, no one knows. WHITE OAK. (P/nfc XCIX.) Qiiihrus alba. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM luech. Ilcitii^ hiOiid; to-io feet or Maine to Ontiir io and May. June. /'>nnc/tes, sjireadin^. higher. southward and west'.vard. Fruit: Sept., iht. Bark: liglit grey or nearly wliite ; less rough than that of most oaks ; often scaly ill okl trees and breaking off in thin sheets. Leaves \%\\\\\^\q.\ alternate; obovate ; pinnately-lobed, wedge-siiaped at the base and with from three to nine lobes; broad and rounded, with coarsely notched or entire edges. Sinu- ses: narrow ; rounded. Ihight green above, jjaler below; at maturity glabrous ; variable. Acorns : ; growing in pairs on short peduncles, or sessile. O//; saucer-shaped ; shallow; rough, with appressed scales. A'/^/." green, turning to chestnut-brown ; lustrous ; oblong, from three-quarters to an inch long ; edible ; sweet. The ancients made oak trees objects of love and reverence, and they also attributed to them the mystic power to foretell or advise about coming events. The oldest oracle of the Greeks was that of Jupiter at Dodona in Epirus. It was believed that two black doves simultaneously flew from Thebes in Egypt. One alighted in an oak grove at Dodona and in a human voice proclaimed that an oracle of Jupiter should there be established by the people. The other dove carried a similar message to the temple of Jupiter Ammon in the Lybian oasis. Accordingly, the oracles were set up, and. Qu^rcus
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