The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE CALIFORNIA WHITE OAK {Quercm lohata) The largest and most picturesque of the Western oaks. The dome is broader than high ; the outer twigs droop like a weepingwillows, but acquire a wonderful tortuousness later. Lumbermen have spared this tree because its wood is not strong. Giganticindividuals stand in the park-Uke valleys, set round by mountain peaks, making a landscape which is unrivalled in any country. THE LIVE OAK (Quercus Virginiana) The thick trunks of old trees break in
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE CALIFORNIA WHITE OAK {Quercm lohata) The largest and most picturesque of the Western oaks. The dome is broader than high ; the outer twigs droop like a weepingwillows, but acquire a wonderful tortuousness later. Lumbermen have spared this tree because its wood is not strong. Giganticindividuals stand in the park-Uke valleys, set round by mountain peaks, making a landscape which is unrivalled in any country. THE LIVE OAK (Quercus Virginiana) The thick trunks of old trees break into horizontal limbs of great length and size, forming a broad dome notunlike a picturesque old apple tree. The small leaves remain on the twigs all winter THE CALIFORNIA LIVE OAK (Quercus agrijolia) This evergreen oak has holly-like leaves with bristly tips upon its lobes, but its acorns are annual. Neverthelessit belongs to the black-oak group. The staminate catkins are delicate and numerous. The red-headed woodpeckersstore the acorns away for winter in holes they drill in the bark furrows The Oaks fusion of acorns of extraordinary length. These resemble theacorns of Quercus alba in other respects. The Digger Indiansstore them for winter use, and depend upon them as the source oftheir bread. They are roasted and hulled, then ground into acoarse meal, which is made into loaves and baked in rude ovensin the sand. The leaves of Quercus lobata are of the true white oak type,with squarish lobes and pale linings. They
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