. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. BIRCH FAMILY Wood.—Light brown, sapwood paler; light, soft, close-grained, not strong, checks badly in drying, not durable in contact with the ground, takes a fine polish. Used for spools, shoe pegs, wood pulp and barrel hoops. Fuel value not high, but burns with bright flame. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.—Slender, brown, one-fourth of an inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, simple, triangular, two and a half to three inches long, one and one-half to two inches wi
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. BIRCH FAMILY Wood.—Light brown, sapwood paler; light, soft, close-grained, not strong, checks badly in drying, not durable in contact with the ground, takes a fine polish. Used for spools, shoe pegs, wood pulp and barrel hoops. Fuel value not high, but burns with bright flame. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.—Slender, brown, one-fourth of an inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, simple, triangular, two and a half to three inches long, one and one-half to two inches wide, truncate or slightly wedge-shaped at base, doubly serrate, with spreading glandular teeth, acute or acuminate. They come out of the bud bright yellow green, glutinous. When full grown are dark shining green above, paler shining green beneath ; midribs yellow, raised, rounded, often marked with minute black glands, primary veins conspicuous. In autumn they turn a pale yellow. Petioles long, slender, slightly twisted, often reddish. Stipules ovate, pale green, tinged with red, caducous. Flowers.—April, before the leaves. Staminate flowers borne on terminal catkins which are solitary or in pairs ; when mature are from three to four inches long. These form in the late summer, and during the winter they vary from one and one-ciuarter to one and one-half inches long, bright pale green, and very rigid. Scales ovate, acute, apiculate. Pis- tillate aments slender, one-half inch long ; scales ovate, acute pale green, glandular; peduncles furnished with conspicuous bractlets. Fruil. — Strobiles cylindrical, an inch long, obtuse at base and apex; peduncles slender, drooping ; scales pubescent, wedge-shaped at base, tliree-lobed, lateral lobes larger tlian the White Birch, Beiuia middle. Spreading. Nut oval, acute or rounded popiilifoiia. Strobiles at base, winged ; the wings rather broader than pendulous, i' long. the seed. Most beautiful Of forest trees—The (.ly of tli
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