. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. >lmn ten as long us ;* tV^Ic/o/i ivXJi^ ' ' """'"-"''' ""'"y-="-''='l^''l. i^ml '"ore Descnptmi, JS?^HR tria- -M ^'le .situations, attains -^ ) â1â u^>.v,-x.«/S9a II iioiijlit of .sovontv or eighty teot, with a
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. >lmn ten as long us ;* tV^Ic/o/i ivXJi^ ' ' """'"-"''' ""'"y-="-''='l^''l. i^ml '"ore Descnptmi, JS?^HR tria- -M ^'le .situations, attains -^ ) â1â u^>.v,-x.«/S9a II iioiijlit of .sovontv or eighty teot, with a truiilv throe or four feet in diameter, clear of brandies to the height of thirty feet. The hark of the trunk and t) is oi a <jray colour, and that of the shoots and spines, of a purphsh-brown. When the tree becomes old, the bark of the trunk detaches itself h-terally, in plates throe or lour inches m Avidth. and nearly a quarter ol an inch in thickness. When advanced 111 age, the trunk and branches are armed Avithr": large prickles, which, llionuh not ligneous, bo- , come hard, and romain attached to the bark for ^ several years. Those prickles are not only ,.ro- V duced from the young wood, but occasionally il and at' S'tmnh^nf;" ^'"' '"â¢"'^'' ''''' ^^'"" ^''« ^'"'^ â '* "^ considerable bulk ceolYom It r. n I,n ^/T'"'. '' '''-'''''^ appearance, and branches cceu irom it lather horizontally, than in an iipriixht direction The i« par iciihuly elogann and is so thin that it scarcely obstructs " pa sal^ of tl o ays ol the sun. The leaves are pinnated, and cmnposed of small ov-d sess e leatlets. cronulated at their summitL, and of L agreeaX in iâ^ '\^. [ill. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the ori
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