. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Northern States and Canada. 21 The Tamarack is a beautiful tree not often over 00 ft. in height nor with trunk more than 2 ft. in thickness. Its trunk is usually straight and columnar or slightly tapering, with scaly bark showing little tendency to become ridged and its top is usually of narrow pyramidal form with short horizontal branches and open airy foliage. It is distinctively a tree of swampy lands, venturing farther out on low lake shores and quaking
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Northern States and Canada. 21 The Tamarack is a beautiful tree not often over 00 ft. in height nor with trunk more than 2 ft. in thickness. Its trunk is usually straight and columnar or slightly tapering, with scaly bark showing little tendency to become ridged and its top is usually of narrow pyramidal form with short horizontal branches and open airy foliage. It is distinctively a tree of swampy lands, venturing farther out on low lake shores and quaking sphagnum bogs than any other tree excepting sometimes the Swamp Spruce and these regions it char- acterizes in summer with its pale green foliage or lights up in autumn with its covering of bright yellow. To the northward in its range where it is very abundant, it is found also on well drained uplands forming in places ex- tensive tracts of open forest. With the Black Spruce it forms the vanguard of the forests in the subarctic regions and there maintains tree-form battling with the elements while its companion is prone upon the ground but still engaged in the struggle. The wood, of which a cubic foot when dry weighs lbs., is rather hard, hea\x strong and very durqble in contact with the soil. It is of a- light orange-brown color with thin lighter sap-wood and is valued for railway ties, posts, planks and lumber for interior Leaves very slender, numerous, in fascicles on short lateral spurs, or singly on new shoots, %- IVi in. long, linear, triangular, pale green, turning yellow and falling in autumn. Floipers appear with the leaves : staminate yellow, subglobos" from leafless scaly buds : pistillate oblong with rose-red rounded scales, on lateral mostly leafv spurs. Conex oblong, about 1/2 in. long oil short peduncles and composed ot about 12 thin concave suborhicular persistent scales about twice as long as their bracts : seeds about % in. long, with l
Size: 1951px × 1281px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorhoughromeynbeck185719, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900
