. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. GINSENG FAMILY two feet. In the autuni:i tdcse leaves turn to a peculiar bronze red touched with yellow wdiicl-, makes the tree con- spicuous and beautiful The flowers are creamy white and ap- pear in great, loose, ilowcr clusters at the Very summit of the stem. Vou have watciied tree all summer, June has come and gone, Juiy is well under way, all other flowering trees are even now maturing their fruit, wiien, suiUlenly, the Hercuies' Club shows signs of bloom and sometimes in Ju
. Our native trees and how to identify them : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities . Trees. GINSENG FAMILY two feet. In the autuni:i tdcse leaves turn to a peculiar bronze red touched with yellow wdiicl-, makes the tree con- spicuous and beautiful The flowers are creamy white and ap- pear in great, loose, ilowcr clusters at the Very summit of the stem. Vou have watciied tree all summer, June has come and gone, Juiy is well under way, all other flowering trees are even now maturing their fruit, wiien, suiUlenly, the Hercuies' Club shows signs of bloom and sometimes in July, often in August and even in September, the behited flowers come forth. The bloonnng siiray, iike the leaf, is enormous, sometimes rising three or four feet ai>ove the spreading leaves. Many of tiie flowers are sterile, so tiiere is no such generous protluction of fruit as might be cxjiected, but there is consider- alile. The little black drupes ripen quickly and hang in clusiers upon the tree all winter long, for their flesh is so thin tlial liiev do not commend tliemseives to the ;;o«J. Drupes yi' l68. 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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