. Common forest trees of North Carolina : how to know them; a pocket manual. Trees -- North Carolina; Trees. BEECH One-half natural size. When mature, they are almost leathery in texture. The beech produces a dense shade. The winter buds are long, slender and pointed. The bark is, perhaps, the most distinctive charac- teristic, as it maintains an unbroken, light gray sur- face throughout its life. So tempting is this smooth expanse to the OAvner of a jackknife that the beech lias been well designated the ''initial ; The little, brown, three-sided beech nuts are almost as well known a
. Common forest trees of North Carolina : how to know them; a pocket manual. Trees -- North Carolina; Trees. BEECH One-half natural size. When mature, they are almost leathery in texture. The beech produces a dense shade. The winter buds are long, slender and pointed. The bark is, perhaps, the most distinctive charac- teristic, as it maintains an unbroken, light gray sur- face throughout its life. So tempting is this smooth expanse to the OAvner of a jackknife that the beech lias been well designated the ''initial ; The little, brown, three-sided beech nuts are almost as well known as chestnuts. They form usually in i)airs in a prickly burr. The kernel is sweet and edible, but so small as to offer insufficient reward for the pains of biting open the thin-shelled husk. The wood of the beech is very hard, strong, and tough, though it will not last long on exposure to Aveather or in the soil. The tree is of no great eco- nomic importance as a lumber tree, though the wood is used to some extent for furniture, flooring, car- penters' tools, and novelty w^ares. 33. 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 original North Carolina. Dept. of Conservation and Development; Holmes, J. S. (John Simcox), 1868-1958. Chapel Hill, N. C. : North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey
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