The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . in in the fruit that gives it its astringency. Thisis gradually withdrawn, probably quite independent of the actionof frost. The orange colour comes to it long before the fruit isripe. The Black Persimmon, or Chapote (Diospyros Texana,Scheele), is a scrubby tree that covers its matted top from Feb-ruary till the following midwinter with dark, leathery leaves,which are narrow and scarcely an inch long. The black, insipidfruit ripens in August, and its juice is used as a black dye. Th
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . in in the fruit that gives it its astringency. Thisis gradually withdrawn, probably quite independent of the actionof frost. The orange colour comes to it long before the fruit isripe. The Black Persimmon, or Chapote (Diospyros Texana,Scheele), is a scrubby tree that covers its matted top from Feb-ruary till the following midwinter with dark, leathery leaves,which are narrow and scarcely an inch long. The black, insipidfruit ripens in August, and its juice is used as a black dye. Thewood is black, often streaked with yellow, and handsome whenpolished. It is sometimes used for engravers blocks. The treegrows in western Texas, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. The wood of our two persimmon trees somewhat resemblesthat of their esteemed tropical relatives, the ebony trees of theEast and West Indies. But, as often is true of temperate-zonespecies, the quality is inferior. In Japan, the native persimmon, Kaki, in the Japaneselanguage, has been improved, until there are numberless horti- 426. THE PERSIMMON (Diospyros Virginiana) This may be a broad tree of wayward habit or a tall one with handsome, round head. The bark is broken by deep fur-row* into small thick plates. Winter buds are small and red. The yellow flowers are borne in axils of leaves in June. Thepistillate trees bear orange-coloured berries, i to i* inches in diameter. They are astringent and inedible until dead ripe; afterfcavy frosts they are sweet and luscious. The Negro and the opossum are devoted to this fruit, and are its most ardent collectori
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