. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WALNUT FAMILY Wood.—Dark brown, sapwood nearly white ; heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, tough, elastic. Confounded commercially with that of the Shellbark hickories. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.—Terminal buds one-half to three-fourth of an inch long, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, two or three times as large as the axillary bud. The three or four outer scales are ovate, acute, often keeled, dark reddish brown and often fall late in autumn or early win
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WALNUT FAMILY Wood.—Dark brown, sapwood nearly white ; heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, tough, elastic. Confounded commercially with that of the Shellbark hickories. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. Winter Buds.—Terminal buds one-half to three-fourth of an inch long, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, two or three times as large as the axillary bud. The three or four outer scales are ovate, acute, often keeled, dark reddish brown and often fall late in autumn or early winter. The innermost scales enlarge when spring growth begins becoming one and a half inches long and half an inch wide, ovate, pale green without and bright red within, downy, persist until the leaf is half grown. Z^aT/^j.—Alternate, compound, eight to twelve inches long. Leaf- lets seven to nine, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, equally or unequally rounded or wedge-shaped at base, serrate, acute or acuminate. Usually sessile except the terminal leaflet which is de- current on a short stalk. Upper leaflets five to eight inches long. Leaflet vernation involute. They come out of the bud thin, pale yellow green, downy; when full grown are dark yellow green, shin- ing above, pale green or orange or brown and downy beneath ; mi- drib stout, prominent. In autumn they turn a clear or rusty yellow. Flowers.—May, when leaves are half grown. MoncEcious. Stam- inate flowers are borne in triple catkins, four to five inches in length, slender, green, hairy. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, hairy, longer thnn the yellow green calyx. Stamens four ; anthers bright red. Pistil- late flowers ia two to five-flowered tomentose spikes. Anterior bract longer than the bractlets and calyx- lobe. Stigmas dark red ; begin to wither before the anthers shed their pollen. Fruit.—Spherical, oblong or ob- ovate, dark reddish brown, one and one-half to two inches long ; husk splitting to middle or n
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