. Common forest trees of Georgia: how to know them. A pocket manual. Trees -- Georgia. WINGED ELM (Ulmus alata Michx.) TIIE winged elin. gets its common name from the thin corky growth, or "wings," usually found on the smaller branches. It occurs scattered generally over the State except in the mountains, usually on dry, gravelly uplands, but often in moist soils and in waste places. It grows rapidly in moist situa- tions, and at the same time is one of the best trees for planting along road- sides in dry poor loca- tions. It is compara- tively free from disease, though not notably l
. Common forest trees of Georgia: how to know them. A pocket manual. Trees -- Georgia. WINGED ELM (Ulmus alata Michx.) TIIE winged elin. gets its common name from the thin corky growth, or "wings," usually found on the smaller branches. It occurs scattered generally over the State except in the mountains, usually on dry, gravelly uplands, but often in moist soils and in waste places. It grows rapidly in moist situa- tions, and at the same time is one of the best trees for planting along road- sides in dry poor loca- tions. It is compara- tively free from disease, though not notably long-lived. This elm is a medium-sized tree of 40 to 50 feet in height and rarely as large as 2 feet in diameter. It forms a rather open, round-topped head. The bark is light brown, tinged with red, and divided into irregular flat ridges and fissures. The leaves are simple, alternate, 2 to 4 inches long and 1 to 2 inches broad, coarsely double- toothed, thick, dark green and smooth above, and pale and softly downy below. They are smaller than those of any otlier elm native in the State. The flowers appear in early spring, long before the leaves unfold. The fruit ripens in the spring about the time the leaves appear; it is winged, tipped with 2 small incurved awns, or beaks, oblong, reddish brown, about one-third of an inch long, with a long slender stalk at the base, and covered with white hairs. The wood is very similar to that of the other elms —heavy, hard, strong and difficult to split. It is occasionally used for hubs and mauls. Formerly, rope made of the inner bark was used for binding the covers to cotton WINGED ELM Two-thirds natural size. 49. 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 Mattoon, Wilbur R. (Wilbur Reed), 1875-1941; Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. Athens, Ga.
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