. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OLIVE FAMILY Wood.—Light yellow streaked with brown, sapwood a lighter yel- low ; heavy, hard, close-grained. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. IVinti-r Buth.—Terminal bud one-fourth inch long ; outer scales fall when spring growth begins, inner scales enlarge and become green. Leaves.—Opposite, compound, unequally pinnate, eight to twelve inches long ; leaflets trve to nine, petiolate. three to fi\'e inches long, one to two inches broad, o\ate-oblong. unequally round- ed
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OLIVE FAMILY Wood.—Light yellow streaked with brown, sapwood a lighter yel- low ; heavy, hard, close-grained. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. IVinti-r Buth.—Terminal bud one-fourth inch long ; outer scales fall when spring growth begins, inner scales enlarge and become green. Leaves.—Opposite, compound, unequally pinnate, eight to twelve inches long ; leaflets trve to nine, petiolate. three to fi\'e inches long, one to two inches broad, o\ate-oblong. unequally round- ed or wedge-shaped at base, serrate, acuminate. l~hey come out of the bud conduplicate. coated with brown tomentum, when full grown are thick, dark green and shining above, pale, smooth or hairy beneath ; in au- tumn they turn from brown and purple to yellow. Petiolules short and grooved. Flowers.—April, before the leaves. Perfect, borne in loose panicles de\eloped from buds formed in the axils Flower of Blue of leaves of the previous year. Calyx.—Reduced to a ring. Corolla.—Wanting, Stamens.—Two, nearly sessile ; anthers dark purple, oblong, ob- tuse, introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally. Pistil.—Ovary superior, two-celled; style short with two, pale purple, stigmatic lobes. Ovules two in each cell Fruit.—Samaras, borne in panicles, lin- ear-oblong, one to two inches long, one-fourth to one inch wide ; the broad wing surrounding the long flat body, emarginate, many-rayed. September, October. Cotyledons elliptical. Ash, Fraxi- nusquadran- The Blue Ash belongs to that group of trees native to the vallev of the JNIiss- issippi. Its habitat extends from south- ern jNIichigan to central Missouri and southward to eastern Tennessee and northern Alabama and through Iowa and Missouri to northeastern Arkansas. Some trees like the Rhododendron re- fuse to grow upon limestone ; the Blue Ash jirefers it. Its chosen locations are rich limestone hills,
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