. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. AILANTHUS FAMILY the sunlight and you will have a bouquet with a r Avr scheme rarely equalled. The mature leaf is often three feet long, with many pairs of leaflets, and one leaflet at the end. Normally, there should be a terminal leaflet, actually, it is often wanting ; this, too, is common in pinnately compound leaves ; the Black Walnut and the Butternut are often evenly, instead of oddly, pinnate ; the terminal leaflet aborts. The young Ailanthus and the Sumach may easily be mistaken
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. AILANTHUS FAMILY the sunlight and you will have a bouquet with a r Avr scheme rarely equalled. The mature leaf is often three feet long, with many pairs of leaflets, and one leaflet at the end. Normally, there should be a terminal leaflet, actually, it is often wanting ; this, too, is common in pinnately compound leaves ; the Black Walnut and the Butternut are often evenly, instead of oddly, pinnate ; the terminal leaflet aborts. The young Ailanthus and the Sumach may easily be mistaken for each other, but a mo- ment's careful observation is sufficient to mark the difference between them. The growing shoot and last year's wood of the Sumach are velvety, while those of the Ail- anthus are smooth. The margin of the Ailanthus leaflet is entire save a tooth or two at the base, the Sumach leaflet is ser- rate all along the margin. The under side of the Sumach leaflet is whitish, the Ailan- thus pale green. But autumn tells the story unmistakably, the Ailanthus leaf either turns a lemon yellow throughout its length or drops unchanged, the Sumach glows in scarlet and orange ere it parts from the parent stem. The Ailanthus is short-lived ; the trunk soon becomes hollow, and a tree two and a half or three feet in diameter, having every appearance of health and vigor, will go down before a strong wind only to disclose the fact that it was simply a An Ailanthus and a Sumach Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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