. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. 376 TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. its white bark and exquisitely-shaped and fluttering leaves show to great advantage. Commercially it is not of any very great value. Its soft, weak wood is too perishable. Spools and barrel-hoops are made from it, and upon the hearth it finds a welcome place. Betiila pendiila, weeping birch, is a Euro- pean species, which is extensively planted in this country. Its drooping branches and delicate, soft leaves are extremely attrac- Bitula pendtila. HOP-HORNBEAM. IRON-WOOD. {Plate CLI.) 6s
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. 376 TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. its white bark and exquisitely-shaped and fluttering leaves show to great advantage. Commercially it is not of any very great value. Its soft, weak wood is too perishable. Spools and barrel-hoops are made from it, and upon the hearth it finds a welcome place. Betiila pendiila, weeping birch, is a Euro- pean species, which is extensively planted in this country. Its drooping branches and delicate, soft leaves are extremely attrac- Bitula pendtila. HOP-HORNBEAM. IRON-WOOD. {Plate CLI.) 6s try a Virginidna. LEVERWOOD. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT Birch. Head, round; branches, 20-60_/\\->\i brown, and dotted with grey; lustrous. Leaves; simple; alternate; with short, rough petioles ; oblong-lanceolate ; taper-pointed at the apex and rounded at the base ; often unequal ; doubly and sharply serrate; dark, yellow- green above ; almost smooth ; lighter coloured below and tufted in the axils of the straight veins. Flowers : growing in long catkins; the staminate ones about two inches long, with scales fringed on the margins. Pistillate catkins: shorter, Fniit: green; growing in long, drooping, hop-like strobiles, with entire, overlapping scales, or sacs which are bristly at their bases. Nuts ; flattened. Those that see this tree usually stop and carefully regard its birch-like leaves and its swinging clusters of yellow- tinted fruit. Both are .cry beautifu^ but hardly more so than are its flower clusters wh;:;n t'cj begin to lengthen in early spring. It is said that the furrows on the bark of this tree are finer than those of any other with a rough bark, and that, as it grows older, this feature becomes more pronounced. It contains considerable tannin. The tree is very shapely and generally small. It is not common. For this reason its wood which is hard and strong and receives a high polish has. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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