. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. WILLOW FAMILY Aspen is the tree of whose wood the of our Saviour was made and that it still shivers in n <.f that fact. Far (i(f ill wilds 'tis said, Hilt tiuih now laiiiihs at lam y's lore 'I'liat of this iifi- th,. cross WHS made Whicli eist the Lord ofdloiy bore- And of tli:it deed its leaves (onfcss E'er since a troubled lonsiiousness. Spirit of the Woodi. LARGE-TOOTHED ASPEN Popiiliis grniidiiLittiila. Common in the forest, pr
. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. WILLOW FAMILY Aspen is the tree of whose wood the of our Saviour was made and that it still shivers in n <.f that fact. Far (i(f ill wilds 'tis said, Hilt tiuih now laiiiihs at lam y's lore 'I'liat of this iifi- th,. cross WHS made Whicli eist the Lord ofdloiy bore- And of tli:it deed its leaves (onfcss E'er since a troubled lonsiiousness. Spirit of the Woodi. LARGE-TOOTHED ASPEN Popiiliis grniidiiLittiila. Common in the forest, proferrin- rich, moist, sandv soil, near thn borders of swamps and streams. Reaches the height of sixty feet, with a trunk two feet in chameter and slender spread- mg hranchcs which form a nanou- round-topped head. Ranges from Nova .Scotia through Ontario to Minnesota; soutliward to Delaware, along the .Mle- ghanics to North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. Bark —(^n old trees near the base, dark brown, hssured and divided into l)roa(l (lat ridges- on younger stems and on Hie smooth and light gray tinged with green, iiranchlets stout, coated at tust with |)ale tomentum, later thev become red- brown or dark orange, finally become dark gray, much roughened by the leaf scars. //'(W.—Light brown, sapwood nearly white; light, soft, close-grained but not strong.' Largely manufactured into wood pulp, occasionallv used for w'(H)den-ware. .Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Z)'/^^/.?.—Spread from the l)ianch ;,t a wide angle, broadly ovate, acute, one eighth of an inch long; about half the size of the fh)wer-buds which otherwise resemlile them. /.<'<?, simple, three to four inches long two to three inches broad, l)roadly-ovate, three- nerved wedge-siiaped, truncate or rounded at base coarsely and irregularly crenate with incurved teeth, 'icute or acuuunate ; midrib and veins conspicuous. when full grown are dark green above, pale gre
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