The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . Z2 a, c H G to *-~> O _2 03 ~3 t-i «5 V s GO 3 X O u CO X • •* t—t -id pq oj £ JO CU O H J W ti, ^ #*j > w 13 X cu H >N .* _> o u a a o T3 a oj CO •a a 03 O o o £ .9 *J • < -Q «J A I. I Fruit and leaf a Fruit j Section of fruit 4 Seeds 5 Seed on scale 6 Upper side of scale 9 Flowering branch : A, Sterile or staminate flower; B, Fertile or pistillate flower •/ Under side of scale10 Bark and wood 8 Flower buds THE YELLOW BIRCH (Betula lutea) (Upper.) A flowering twig in
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . Z2 a, c H G to *-~> O _2 03 ~3 t-i «5 V s GO 3 X O u CO X • •* t—t -id pq oj £ JO CU O H J W ti, ^ #*j > w 13 X cu H >N .* _> o u a a o T3 a oj CO •a a 03 O o o £ .9 *J • < -Q «J A I. I Fruit and leaf a Fruit j Section of fruit 4 Seeds 5 Seed on scale 6 Upper side of scale 9 Flowering branch : A, Sterile or staminate flower; B, Fertile or pistillate flower •/ Under side of scale10 Bark and wood 8 Flower buds THE YELLOW BIRCH (Betula lutea) (Upper.) A flowering twig in early April. Staminate catkins pendulous at tip. Pistillate catkins smaller, solitary, erect, lateral.(Lower.) Leaf, cones, 3-lobed cone-scales and heart-shaped, winged seeds, ripe in autumn. Twig with 6taminate catkin?half grown and sealed ud for winter The Birches divergent limbs that support the pendulous horizontal birch loves the stream borders more ardently than this Southernmember of the family. The lustrous leaves do not conceal theflying silken tatters of bark which cover the tree to its leafytwigs the year round. It is foolish to call this tree nigra, for itis not black but red, from top to bottom. It is at its best alongthe bayous of the lower Mississippi, where its roots an
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