. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Hai^dbook of Trees of the I^oetiiekn States and Canada. 127 The Yellow Birch ia a large and important forest tree of the northeastern states and the eastern provinces of Canada, sometimes at- taining the height of 100 ft. with trunk 3 or 4 ft. in diameter. When isolated it develops a broad rounded top of many small straight- ish branches. Its peculiar bark is its most striking feature and distinguishes it from all other trees of the forest. The bark on its branches and smaller trun
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Hai^dbook of Trees of the I^oetiiekn States and Canada. 127 The Yellow Birch ia a large and important forest tree of the northeastern states and the eastern provinces of Canada, sometimes at- taining the height of 100 ft. with trunk 3 or 4 ft. in diameter. When isolated it develops a broad rounded top of many small straight- ish branches. Its peculiar bark is its most striking feature and distinguishes it from all other trees of the forest. The bark on its branches and smaller trunks is very smooth and lustrous silvery or golden gray, breaking finally as the trunk expands and rolling back in ribbon-like strips and curls, which long re- main attached rustling with every passing breeze. On very old trunks the character of the bark is quite difl'erent, as it is there rough with irregular plate-like scales. It inhabits rich moist uplands in company in our northern forests with the Beech, Sugar and Red Maples, Black and White Ash, White Elm, Hop Horn- beam, etc. Its wood is hard and strong, a cubic foot, when absolutely dry, weighing lbs., and is highly valued in the manufacture of agri- cultural implements, wooden ware, etc., and furniture, occasional " figured" trees being especially valuable for the latter use. It is also one of the best woods of its range for Learns ovate to ovate-oblong, 2-5 in. long, acute or acuminate at apex, rounded, obtuse or heart- shaped at base, sharply doubly serrate, silky pubescent at first but finally glabrous dull green above, paler and with silky hairs on midrib and prominent veins beneath ; petioles slender, hairy ; branchlets at first green and pilose-pubescent but finally smooth. Flowers: staminate aments usually in clusters o( 2-4, S-SVa in. long when fully ex- panded (%-l in. long in winter and Vs in- tbick) with rounded scales; pistillate aments about % in. long with acute pilose scales ; styles
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