. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. GINSENG FAMILY two feet. In the autumn these leaves turn to a peculiar bronze red touched with yellow which makes the tree con- spicuous and beautiful. The flowers are creamy white and ap- pear in great, loose, flower clusters at the very summit of the stem. You have watched the tree all summer, June has come and gone, July is well under way, all other flowering trees are even now maturing their fruit, when, suddenly, the Hercules' Club shows signs of bloom and sometimes in July, often
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. GINSENG FAMILY two feet. In the autumn these leaves turn to a peculiar bronze red touched with yellow which makes the tree con- spicuous and beautiful. The flowers are creamy white and ap- pear in great, loose, flower clusters at the very summit of the stem. You have watched the tree all summer, June has come and gone, July is well under way, all other flowering trees are even now maturing their fruit, when, suddenly, the Hercules' Club shows signs of bloom and sometimes in July, often in August and even in September, the belated flowers come forth. The blooming spray, like the leaf, is enormous, sometimes rising three or lour feet above the spreading leaves. Many of the flowers are sterile, so there is no such generous production of fruit as might be expected, but there is consider- able. The littie black drupes ripen quickly and hang in clusters upon the tree all winter long, for their flesh is so thin that they do not commend themselves to the Hercules' Club, ftrana spi- nosa. Drupes %' 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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