. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Chestnut 273 about It is very durable in the soil and is esteemed for fence-posts and rail- road ties. The fruit is collected and sold in the markets of the south and west, but seldom reaches those of the northeast. It is a beautiful small tree and deserves more frequent planting in parks. A remarkable specimen from Eagle Rock, Missouri has large leaves as coarsely toothed as those of the Chestnut. 2. CHESTNUT—Oasta
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Chestnut 273 about It is very durable in the soil and is esteemed for fence-posts and rail- road ties. The fruit is collected and sold in the markets of the south and west, but seldom reaches those of the northeast. It is a beautiful small tree and deserves more frequent planting in parks. A remarkable specimen from Eagle Rock, Missouri has large leaves as coarsely toothed as those of the Chestnut. 2. CHESTNUT—Oastanea dentata (Marshall) Borckhausen Fagus Castanea dentata Marshall. Castanea vesca americana Michaux This stately tree is frequent throughout eastern North America from Maine to Ontario and Michigan, southward to Delaware and thence along the mountains to northern Alabama and Mississippi, and to Indiana and Arkansas. It is tall and slender in the forests, but broad and spreading, with somewhat drooping branches, forming a round top often 30 meters across when growing in the open. Its maximum height is about 30 meters, with a trunk diameter of 4 meters. The bark is from to 5 cm. thick, deeply and narrowly furrowed into nearly flat somewhat oblique ridges and divided into small, irregular, close scales of a dark brown color. The twigs are slender, round, sUghtly hairy, becoming smooth, and change through va- rious shades of yellow and reddish to dark brown. There is no terminal bud; the winter buds are all lateral, ovoid, sharp-pointed, 6 mm. long, their thin scales bright brown. The leaves are thin, narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or ob- long-lanceolate, I to 3 dm. long, taper-pointed, gradually narrowed to the wedge-shaped base, coarsely and sharply toothed on the margin, smooth on^both sides, dull yellowish green and shining above, paler and prominently veined be- neath; the leaf-stalk is yellow, stout and angular, I to 2 cm. long; the stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1
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