. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Tree Study 801 THE HEMLOCK Teacher s Story "O'er lonely lakes that wild and nameless lie, Black, shaggy, vast and still as Barca's sands A hemtocti forest stands. Oh forest like a pall! Oh hemlock of the wild, Oh brother of my soul I love thy mantle black, thy shaggy bole. Thy form grotesque, thy spreading arms of ; — The hemlock branches the burden sUde off. is furrowed into wide, but whitish when seen N ITS prime, the hemlock is a magnificent tree. It reaches
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Tree Study 801 THE HEMLOCK Teacher s Story "O'er lonely lakes that wild and nameless lie, Black, shaggy, vast and still as Barca's sands A hemtocti forest stands. Oh forest like a pall! Oh hemlock of the wild, Oh brother of my soul I love thy mantle black, thy shaggy bole. Thy form grotesque, thy spreading arms of ; — The hemlock branches the burden sUde off. is furrowed into wide, but whitish when seen N ITS prime, the hemlock is a magnificent tree. It reaches the height of from sixty to one hun- dred feet, is cone-shaped, its fine, dense foliage and its drooping branches giving to its appear- ance exqtiisite delicacy; and I have yet to see elsewhere such graceful tree-spires as are the hemlocks of the Sierras, albeit they have bend- ing tips. However, an old hemlock becomes very ragged and rugged in appearance; and dying, it rears its wind-broken branches against the sky, a gaunt figure of stark loneliness, are seldom broken by snow; they droop to let The bark is reddish, or sometimes gray, and scaly ridges. The foliage is a rich dark green, from below. The leaves of the hemlock are really arranged in a spiral, but this is hard to demonstrate. They look as though they were arranged in double rows along each side of the little twig; but they are not in the same plane and there is usually a row of short leaves on the upper side of the twig. The leaf is blunt at the tip and has a little petiole of its own which distinguishes it from the leaves of any other species of conifer; it is dark, glossy green above, pale green beneath, marked with two white, lengthwise lines. In June, the tip of every twig grows and puts forth new leaves which are greenish yellow in color, making the tree very beautiful and giving it the appearance of blossoming. The leaves are shed during the third year. The hemlock cones are small and are borne on the tips
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