. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WITCH HAZEL FAMILY IVood.—Bright reddish brown, sapwood nearly white ; heavy, straight, satiny, close-grained, not strong ; will take a beautiful pol- ish ; warps badly in drying. Has been used with good results in the interior linish of sleeping cars and fine houses. The wood is usually cut in veneers and backed up with some other variety which shrinks and warps less. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. IVintc-r Buih.—Yellow brown, one-fourth of an inch long, acute. The inne
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WITCH HAZEL FAMILY IVood.—Bright reddish brown, sapwood nearly white ; heavy, straight, satiny, close-grained, not strong ; will take a beautiful pol- ish ; warps badly in drying. Has been used with good results in the interior linish of sleeping cars and fine houses. The wood is usually cut in veneers and backed up with some other variety which shrinks and warps less. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. IVintc-r Buih.—Yellow brown, one-fourth of an inch long, acute. The inner scales enlarge with the growing shoot, becoming half an inch long, green tipped with red. Leaves.—Alternate, three to five inches long, three to seven inches broad, lobed, so as to make a star-shaped leaf of five to seven divis- ions, these divisions acutely pointed, with glandular serrate teeth. The base is truncate or slightly heart-shaped. They come out of the bud plicate, downy, pale green, when full grown are bright green, smooth, shining above, paler beneath. In autumn they vary in color from yellow through crimson to purple. They contain tan- nin and when bruised give a resinous fragrance. Petioles long, slender, terete. Stipules lanceolate, acute, caducous. Flowers.—March to May, when leaves are half grown ; monoeci- ous, greenish. Staminate flowers in terminal racemes two to three inches long, covered with rusty hairs ; the pistillate in a solitary head on a slender peduncle borne in the axil of an upper leaf. Stam- inate flowers destitute of calyx and corolla, but surrounded by hairy bracts. Stamens indefinite ; filaments short ; anthers introrse. Pistillate flowers with a two-celled, t\.o- beaked ovary, the carpels produced into a long, recurved, persistent style. The ova- ries all more or less cohere and harden in fruit. Ovules many but few mature. Fruit. — Multicapsular spherical head, an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, hangs on the branches dur
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