. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. traveler's tree TREES 1833 TRAVELER'S TREE. See MavenaUi. TEEAStTEE VINE. Name proposed by J. L. Chikls for Eidalgoa Wercldei or Childsia Wercklci. TEEE. Candelabrum, or Cbandelier T., PavdanuK Cititdelabnint. TEEE OF HEAVEN. See AUantlni.'i. TREES. Plate XLIV. Pigs. 2551-2566. Wbat Is a tree ? is a question to
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. traveler's tree TREES 1833 TRAVELER'S TREE. See MavenaUi. TEEAStTEE VINE. Name proposed by J. L. Chikls for Eidalgoa Wercldei or Childsia Wercklci. TEEE. Candelabrum, or Cbandelier T., PavdanuK Cititdelabnint. TEEE OF HEAVEN. See AUantlni.'i. TREES. Plate XLIV. Pigs. 2551-2566. Wbat Is a tree ? is a question to which it is not easy to give a short and well-deflued answer. The same species may assume a tree-lilie habit or remain shrubby, according to the climatic conditions, soil and other circumstances. Usually a tree is defined as a woody plant rising from more. The Sequoias are of more 'estic and gigantic appearance than the Eucalyptus on account of its mas- sive trunlt (see Sequoia, p. 1660). Psmdotsurja Doucjlasi and Pinus Lamhurtiana occasionally attain 300 feet. A number of other conifers, chiefly American, grow to a lieight of 150 to 300 feet. Some deciduous trees, as Pla- tanns occidentalis, several species of oak and Lirioden- dron Tuliplfera exceed 150 feet in height. The jequitiba of Southern Brazil (Couratari legulis, one of the Myr- taceaj) is also a tree (see Bot. Gaz. 31, p. 352). The greatest diameter has been observed in Castanea vesca, of which a tree with a partly decayed trunli at the foot of Mt. Etna in Sicily measures more than 60 feet in diameter. After this the greatest diameter ob- served is in Taxodlwn mucronafum, about 40 feet, and in Platanus orientalis about the same, in Sequoia. 2551. A pasture elm. the ground under normal conditions with a single stem and attaining a certain height, fixed by some at 20, by others at 15 feet, or even less. A more exact definition has been given by B. E. Fernow: "Trees are woody plants the seed of which
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