. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tkees of the NoETiiEj;:sr States and Canada. 133 The Beech is one of the most distinct and beautiful trees of our eastern American forests, sometimes surpassing 100 ft. in height and with straight columnar trunk 3 or 4 ft. in thickness vested in its trim smooth bluish gray bark. When isolated it develops a rounded or broad upright spreading top of many branches and slender branehlets. It in- habits rich well-drained uplands and slopes, in the north in company with the S
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tkees of the NoETiiEj;:sr States and Canada. 133 The Beech is one of the most distinct and beautiful trees of our eastern American forests, sometimes surpassing 100 ft. in height and with straight columnar trunk 3 or 4 ft. in thickness vested in its trim smooth bluish gray bark. When isolated it develops a rounded or broad upright spreading top of many branches and slender branehlets. It in- habits rich well-drained uplands and slopes, in the north in company with the Sugar Maple, Birches, Hop Hornbeam, Basswood, Hemlock, etc. and in the south is found along the borders of swamps and bottom-lands. It often in old age sends up many shoots from its roots which form a thicket about its base, and as the parent declines the fittest of these survive and grow into trees to take its place. It is a beautiful tree at all times, each successive season of the j-ear giving to it a peculiar charm, and not the least of these is its lea Hess condition in winter. Its nuts form the chief article of food for many denizens of the forest and they are sometimes gathered and sold m northern markets. The wood, a cubic foot of which, when abso- lutely dry, weighs lbs., is used in the manufacture of furniture, wooden-ware, plane- stocks, etc., and for Leavcs ovate-oblong, 3-6 in. long, acuminate, wedge-sbaped, rounded or cordate at base, coarsely serrate, a vein terminating in each tootb. pale green and .silky tomentose when they untold, but tinally glabrous dark green above, paler and with hairs in the and on the beneath : petioles short. Floirrrs appear after the leaves untold. Fruit: nut about % in. long; involucre covered with many sleoder prickles, with stout peduncles and persisting open upon the brancblets late into the winter.' 1. Syn. Fagiis ferruginca Ait. Fagus atro- punicea (Marsh.) Sudw. 2. A. W., I, 16. 3. For genus see p. 42
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