. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. White Fir n scales and reflexed over them, yellowish, small-toothed, slightly rounded, and softly bristle-pointed. The seed is about 5 mm. long, its papery, obhquely wedge- shaped wing about twice as long. The wood is soft, weak, coarse-grained, pale brown; its specific gravity is about It is probably never put upon the lumber market, although it is sometimes used for building purposes on the mountains where it grow
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. White Fir n scales and reflexed over them, yellowish, small-toothed, slightly rounded, and softly bristle-pointed. The seed is about 5 mm. long, its papery, obhquely wedge- shaped wing about twice as long. The wood is soft, weak, coarse-grained, pale brown; its specific gravity is about It is probably never put upon the lumber market, although it is sometimes used for building purposes on the mountains where it grows. As an ornamental tree its inferior hardiness and general resemblance to the previously described species make it superfluous. Indeed, much of the stock sent out by nurserymen under this name is really nothing but the Balsam fir. 3. WHITE FIR —Abies lasiocatpa (Hooker) Nuttall Pinus lasiocarpa Hooker. Abies subalpina Engelmann This Fir, variously called White balsam fir, Oregon balsam fir, Alpine fir. Downy cone fir, Mountain balsam, and Pumpkin tree, has probably a greater range than any other American Fir, occurring from Alaska to Washington, Ari- zona, eastward to Alberta, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and southern Fig. 59. — White Fir. At elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters it reaches its maximum height of 30 meters, with a trunk diameter of 9 dm. At the higher elevations of about 3000 meters it is sometimes reduced to a mere shrub. The branches are short, densely crowded, the lower drooping and sometimes persist almost to the base, forming a narrowly conic sharp-topped tree, narrower. 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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