. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. CANOE BIRCH. PAPER BIRCH. Betula papt/rifcra Marsli.^. with scattered seeds and cone-scales, 2 ; branchlets in winternext seasons flowers, 3. 138. Trunk of tree in Adirondack region, N. Y. ns, I ; broken coneone bearing young catkins for the Handbook of Trees of the Xoetiiekn States and Canada. 121 The Paper Birch, west of the Rocky Moun-tains, is said to attain a hoi<,ht of 120 ft. withtrunk from 3-4 ft. in thickness, but clsewliererarely exceeds 70 or 80 ft. in lieight. Wlicnisolated
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. CANOE BIRCH. PAPER BIRCH. Betula papt/rifcra Marsli.^. with scattered seeds and cone-scales, 2 ; branchlets in winternext seasons flowers, 3. 138. Trunk of tree in Adirondack region, N. Y. ns, I ; broken coneone bearing young catkins for the Handbook of Trees of the Xoetiiekn States and Canada. 121 The Paper Birch, west of the Rocky Moun-tains, is said to attain a hoi<,ht of 120 ft. withtrunk from 3-4 ft. in thickness, but clsewliererarely exceeds 70 or 80 ft. in lieight. Wlicnisolated from other trees it develops a fullrounded and usually irregular top of manybranches. The bark of the larger branchesand young trunks is laminate, smooth and ofcreamy or ivory whiteness, marked with longhorizontal raised lenticels. As the trunk en-larges the bark becomes more or less streakedand blotched with blackish and the outer layersseparate and roll back in large ragged very old trunks the bark at base becomesbroken into large closely appressed irregularscales. It inhabits rich slopes and ornamentsthe banks of northern streams and lake-sh
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