. Elementary woodworking . Fig. 97. Method of distinguishingCompound and SimplQ Leaves 86 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING This class of leaf is very common, as our horse-chest-nuts, buckeyes, hickories, and walnuts all have com-pound leaves. The horse-chestnut is not a native American tree, butwas imported from Europe, where it is a great leaflets number five or seven, always an odd num-. FiG. 98. The Ilorse-Chestnut ber, and they radiate from one central point, the oddone in the center usually being the largest. It is very interesting to watch these leaves as theycome out of the sticky bu
. Elementary woodworking . Fig. 97. Method of distinguishingCompound and SimplQ Leaves 86 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING This class of leaf is very common, as our horse-chest-nuts, buckeyes, hickories, and walnuts all have com-pound leaves. The horse-chestnut is not a native American tree, butwas imported from Europe, where it is a great leaflets number five or seven, always an odd num-. FiG. 98. The Ilorse-Chestnut ber, and they radiate from one central point, the oddone in the center usually being the largest. It is very interesting to watch these leaves as theycome out of the sticky buds in the spring. They unfoldand grow very rapidly and soon the tree brings forthlarge pyramidal clusters of beautiful flowers. TREES HAVING COMPOUND LEAVES 87 The large, neat brown nuts which come later in theseason do not seem to be very useful, yet they are sosolid and shiny that every boy delights to gather them. An American tree closely resembling the horse-chest-nut is the buckeye. The leaflets on the buckeye leafnumber five, sometimes seven, and radiate like the horse-chestnut from a common center.
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