. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. â ; heavy, hard, leu. ft , lbs. to, one-eighth to â i and one-half to uncate or uedj^e- o seven or nine h l) - clivision being -11 teeth near its Hling or falcate, ih and jirimary onvohite, bright tinally become bright green, lining beneath, 'etioles slender, '^â s caducous, nninate anients ed in bud, four -luler ; anthers Ic's ; involucral ssile or stalked, hemispherical, If to one inch ' cup-shaped or reddish 1)ro\vn ;reddish brown i^'ninst tli
. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. â ; heavy, hard, leu. ft , lbs. to, one-eighth to â i and one-half to uncate or uedj^e- o seven or nine h l) - clivision being -11 teeth near its Hling or falcate, ih and jirimary onvohite, bright tinally become bright green, lining beneath, 'etioles slender, '^â s caducous, nninate anients ed in bud, four -luler ; anthers Ic's ; involucral ssile or stalked, hemispherical, If to one inch ' cup-shaped or reddish 1)ro\vn ;reddish brown i^'ninst tlie sky, as look like double, n tlio less deeply hat they nppear .' leaves of very es, more entire, n old trees have iiated mi)re and 'v "ith the light ithy matter, and nee arm in arm ose aerial halls, 'lenderness and nee is leaf and y thickly strew eet. They are and their bold. Scarlet Oak, Qiiariis incci)i,\). Acorns M' to 1' long. BLACK OAK deep scallops reaching almost to the midrib. They suggest that mat<-rial must be cheap or else there has been lavish in their creation, if so much been cm Miit. â I). TiioKKAi;. A Scarlet Oak growing Ir. ;he open forms a roiuitl tlome- Iike head whose lower branches fretjiieiitly sweep the groimd. Its leaves are a bright shining green, borne on slender i)eti- oles so that they respond to every zeph- \ r s breath. Their si)riiig-linie tint is I)|-ight pink and silvery white, but by the lime the flowers come the leaves are l)ale green, grtnving darker as they grow older, !)nt never e\en in miilsnminer do they become dark green. The esjiecial glory of the species lies in the brilliant color which the leaves assume late in aiitnmn, 'I'hc autumnal tints of other oaks are beautiful, but they pale their fires before the ruddy gleam of the Scarlet. The acorns greatly resemble those of the Oak, but the kernel is white instead of yellow. This difference is characteristic and persistent and may often decide the
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