. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. U4 TREES GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. angles of the ribs with reddish hairs. Flowers: monoecious; the staminate ones growing in slender catkins; pistillate ones mostly solitary. Acorns: small; growing on short stems or sessile. Cup: flat; saucer-shaped; finely scaled. Nut: light brown; rounded; often striped ; very broad, with a thin shell. The leaves of the pin oak strongly suggest to us in general outline those of the scarlet oak, page 244. When we come to examine them closely, however, we notice among other things that they are
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. U4 TREES GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. angles of the ribs with reddish hairs. Flowers: monoecious; the staminate ones growing in slender catkins; pistillate ones mostly solitary. Acorns: small; growing on short stems or sessile. Cup: flat; saucer-shaped; finely scaled. Nut: light brown; rounded; often striped ; very broad, with a thin shell. The leaves of the pin oak strongly suggest to us in general outline those of the scarlet oak, page 244. When we come to examine them closely, however, we notice among other things that they are smaller and that their sinuses extend nearer to the midrib. These very differences, although they may seem slight, do in reality change the whole aspect of the trees, and give to the pin oak a lighter, more delicate appearance which is very pretty. When young it is tapering and symmetrical in outline; but age seems to distort it, and it be- comes irregular and straggling. Its pendulous branches mark it distinctively. In early spring when the tree is blooming, its delicate maize-coloured cat- kins hang among the tender green leaves and sway and nod with them most enchantingly. In lowlands and guarding the borders of streams the tree is common, and it sometimes is found extending its roots into the river bed. In all places the tree has its own peculiar beauty, and it is an excellent one for plant- ing. In the autumn its leaves turn a deep, rich red. Its wood is coarse and not of any great value. It warps badly in drying. Galls, or oak-apples as they are sometimes called, are the round excrescences made on the branches of oak trees by gall- flies and their larvae. In some parts of New Jersey it seems as though they had an especial preference for this species. Often in the spring before enough green has been put forth to cover the bareness of winter it is quite pitiable to see so many galls cling- ing to the branches and destroying the appearance of really fine. Qutrcus paltistris
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