The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . A. Staminate flower B. Pistillate flower THE BEECH (Fagus Americana) The fine-textured bark varies from dark gray to almost white. The buds are long and pointed and shining goldenbrown. The prickly 4-valved pod remains long after the two triangular nuts have fallen out. The opening shoots are beautifulin May, the pendant staminate heads are as soft and silky as rhe baby leaves. The pistillate flowers, solitary or paired, stand ipthe angles of the uppermost leaves pr**-: 1. THE CHEST
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . A. Staminate flower B. Pistillate flower THE BEECH (Fagus Americana) The fine-textured bark varies from dark gray to almost white. The buds are long and pointed and shining goldenbrown. The prickly 4-valved pod remains long after the two triangular nuts have fallen out. The opening shoots are beautifulin May, the pendant staminate heads are as soft and silky as rhe baby leaves. The pistillate flowers, solitary or paired, stand ipthe angles of the uppermost leaves pr**-: 1. THE CHESTNUT (Castanea dentata) Aside from its value as a nut tree, many a fine specimen tree is saved from the sawmill because the community cannot spare it from the landscape The Beeches woods. Its rind is smooth, close knit and of soft Quaker grey,sometimes mottled and in varying shades, and decorated withdelicate lichens. The limbs are darker in colour, and the browntwigs, down to their birds-claw buds, shine asif polished. Throughthe longsummer the beech is beautifully clad; its leaves are thinand soft as silk. Few insects injure them, and they resist tearingby the wind. In the autumn the first touch of frost turns theirgreen to gold, and they cling to the twigs until late in trees in sheltered places hold their leaves longest. The European Beech (K sylvatica, Linn.) is one of themost important timber trees of Europe, and the parent of thepurple and weeping beeches and other ornamental horticulturalforms in cultivation in European and American parks and privateground
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