. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. 278 TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. if it could be pro- not the value to which it would be entitled cured in larger quantities. All living in and about New York have an opportunity to study the tree as it has been most abundantly planted in Central Park. POST OAK. IRON OAK. BOX WHITE OAK. ROUND- LEAVED WHITE OAK. {Plate CLII.) Querctis minor. FAMILY SHAPE Btech, Head^ round, dense; branches, spreading. HEIGHT RANGE 20iooJ'eet. Mass. southward and luesttuard to Indian Territory and Texas. TIME OF BLOOM May, June. Fruit: Sept., Oct
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. 278 TREES GROWING IN DRY SOIL. if it could be pro- not the value to which it would be entitled cured in larger quantities. All living in and about New York have an opportunity to study the tree as it has been most abundantly planted in Central Park. POST OAK. IRON OAK. BOX WHITE OAK. ROUND- LEAVED WHITE OAK. {Plate CLII.) Querctis minor. FAMILY SHAPE Btech, Head^ round, dense; branches, spreading. HEIGHT RANGE 20iooJ'eet. Mass. southward and luesttuard to Indian Territory and Texas. TIME OF BLOOM May, June. Fruit: Sept., Oct. Bark: rather dark grey; rough but slightly so in cojnparison to other oaks, excepting the white oak. Lea-jes: simple; alternate; long-obovate; with rounded or wedge-sliaped base, and having from three to seven variously shaped lobes, frequently s|)reading out at almost right angles from the midrib. At the apex they are lobed, or hollowed and become narrow or remain square at the base; dark green and shiny above with fine hairs, lighter coloured and downy underneath; thick; coarse. F/oivers : appearing l^efore the leaves are partly grown. Stiiminate catkins: three or four inches long. Pistillate ones : sessile. Acorns: two or three growing on a short stem, or solitary, and almost sessile. Cup: deeply saucer-shaped, with small, lanceolate scales often fringed at the margin. Nut: small; dark brown, delicately striped and lustrous; oval; very sweet. What is the object, we sometimes wonder, to which trees direct their growth, and why are some of them ii^J^rp-content to be low while others are lofty, and why do many remain weak when others grow strong ? It is not difficult to trace the aspirations of the oaks ; they are visibly for power and en- durance. Quercus minor displays it, in its compact, rough manner of growth, which is so noticeable that the tree could hardly be mistaken for a member of any other genus. Its dark foliage too is ruggedly and distinctively cut. Quercus miMor
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