The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE PIN OAK (Quercus palustris) The thin, deeply cut leaves vary from the delicacy of the scarlet oak to the lustiness of the red oak. The squat little acornsresemble neither of these. When ripe the nuts are brown, daintily striped with black. The kernels are white and bitter The Oaks groves of it, mingled with white oaks, are common among coniferson mountain slopes and high valleys throughout California andnorth to the middle of Oregon. The black bark of this oak is twice as rich i
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE PIN OAK (Quercus palustris) The thin, deeply cut leaves vary from the delicacy of the scarlet oak to the lustiness of the red oak. The squat little acornsresemble neither of these. When ripe the nuts are brown, daintily striped with black. The kernels are white and bitter The Oaks groves of it, mingled with white oaks, are common among coniferson mountain slopes and high valleys throughout California andnorth to the middle of Oregon. The black bark of this oak is twice as rich in tannin as hem-lock bark. The wood is rich in colour and wavy grained, butlumbermen dislike it. It dries very slowly, and is likely to beperforated with pin knots, which mar and weaken it. Pin Oak, Swamp Spanish Oak (Quercus palustris, Linn.)—A graceful, pyramidal tree when young, becoming oblong andirregular, at length; 50 to 120 feet high; branches horizontal,short. Bark grey-brown, shining, smooth, becoming scaly ontrunk; twigs red, tomentose. Wood hard, tough, strong, heavy,coarse grained, light brow
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