. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of of the ISToetheen States axd Canada. 383 The Silver-bell Tree is generally of small stature, but on the high Alleghany Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, where several other trees find inspiration for greatest de- velopment, this one lifts its head to the height of 80 or 90 ft., with straight columnar trunk 3 ft. in diameter, but such trees are only found in this favored locality; elsewhere it is a much smaller tree, and is often a large shrub sending up
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of of the ISToetheen States axd Canada. 383 The Silver-bell Tree is generally of small stature, but on the high Alleghany Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, where several other trees find inspiration for greatest de- velopment, this one lifts its head to the height of 80 or 90 ft., with straight columnar trunk 3 ft. in diameter, but such trees are only found in this favored locality; elsewhere it is a much smaller tree, and is often a large shrub sending up several stems from the ground. When isolated it commonly forms a narrow rounded top of short stout branches. It in- habits rich well-drained wooded slopes and banks of streams, in company with various Oaks, Hickories, Ashes and Magnolias, Sugar Maple, Sorrel-tree, Great Rhododendron, Laurel, Witch Hazel, etc., and in spring, when its branches are fringed with many white bell- shaped flowers, soon after the unfolding of its leaves, it is an object of singular beauty. In- deed, that its ornamental value is generally appreciated is shown by the fact that it is often planted in city parks and on private grounds throughout the Atlantic states. Its wood is light, a cubic foot, when abso- lutely dry, weighing lbs., soft, fine- grained and suitable for use in turnery, but generally too scarce to be of commercial ira- Leaves oval to obovate-oblong. 4-6 in. long, acute or obtuse at base, mostly acuminate at apex, remotely serrulate, pale tomentose at first, at maturity glabrous dark green above, paler and more or less pubescent beneath. Flowers (March- April) on drooping : corolla slightly lobed, about % in. long; stamens 10-16 with glabrous filaments ; ovary 4-celled. Pniit ripening in late autumn, 4-winged. 1-2 in. long.' 1. Syn, Halesia tetraptera Bllia. 2. A. W., XI, 261. 3. For genus see p. 4, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pag
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