. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 414 Betulacece—Betula. Order CVIII.—BETULACE^ Deciduous trees or shrubs with simple alternate stipulate leaves and moncecious flowers in catkins. Perianth none or bract-like. Flowers 2 or 3 together at the base of the bracts of the Ccitkin. Stamens 2 to 5, with forked filaments and divergent anther-cells, or simple with connate anther-cells. Ovary 2-cel
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 414 Betulacece—Betula. Order CVIII.—BETULACE^ Deciduous trees or shrubs with simple alternate stipulate leaves and moncecious flowers in catkins. Perianth none or bract-like. Flowers 2 or 3 together at the base of the bracts of the Ccitkin. Stamens 2 to 5, with forked filaments and divergent anther-cells, or simple with connate anther-cells. Ovary 2-celled ; cells 1-ovulate. Fruit a dry compressed lenti- cular often winged indehiscent nut, by abortion 1-celled and 1-seeded; seed pendulous. This order is limited to the two following genera, whose species are estimated at about thirty- five. They are scattered over the north temperate zone and the mountains of South America. 1. BETULA. Trees or shrubs in wliich the scales of the female catkin are thin and deciduous, and usu- ally trilobate. Stamens 2. The species are con- fined to the northern he- misphere. The name is that used by the ancients. 1. B. alba. Common Birch (fig. 214). —This graceful indigenous tree whose silvery white de- ciduous bark and slender branches render it so effective in a landscape, is represented by several varieties, differing mainly in the foliage from the ordinary form. But the first to claim our atten- tion is B. a. pendula, the Weeping Birch, one of the most distinct and desirable of this class of. Fig. Vili. Ectula alba (Common Birch). trees, being of moderate size wlien fully developed. The. 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 Hemsley, W. Botting (William Botting), 1843-1924; Decaisne, J. (Joseph) Manuel de l'amateur des jardins. Boston, Estes & Lauriat
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