. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OAK FAMILY tire subject of spring and autumn tints is becoming more and more interesting as it is more carefully studied. It is now well understood that the frost is not a factor in the problem and that both spring and autumn tints arise from changes in the character of the chlorophyll ; the one when the chloro- phyll is not yet mature and the other when it is dying. The acorns are characteristic, an. need never be mistaken. They are th. largest borne by any oak of the Biennial group, a
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. OAK FAMILY tire subject of spring and autumn tints is becoming more and more interesting as it is more carefully studied. It is now well understood that the frost is not a factor in the problem and that both spring and autumn tints arise from changes in the character of the chlorophyll ; the one when the chloro- phyll is not yet mature and the other when it is dying. The acorns are characteristic, an. need never be mistaken. They are th. largest borne by any oak of the Biennial group, and sit in flat shallow cups with prominent rims and close scales. The kernel is white and extremely bitter. Red Oak, Qitcrcus rubra. J Acorns %> to •%' long. Wildwood creatures care little for them and they remain under the trees all win- ter unless eaten by swine. The Red Oak ranges farther north than any other of the Biennials ; it has been found on the banks of the Saskatchewan. Climatic conditions so affect it that there it ceases to be a tree, nor is it even a shrub, but it transforms itself by stress of circumstances into burls and knobs and low knotted heads only a foot or two high. < SCARLET OAK Qinhrus coccinea. Usually seventy or eighty feet high, maximum height one hun- dred and sixty, with slender trunk, rather small branches, open narrow head. Prefers a dry, sandy soil. Ranges from Maine through central New York to southern Ontario, west through Michigan and Minnesota to Nebraska, south on the Alleghanies to North Carolina and Tennessee. Bark.—Dark brown, with shallow fissures, scaly. Young stems and branches smooth and light brown. Inner side of bark reddish or gray. Branchlets at first scurfy, later pale green and shining, finally reddish, at last light 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 res
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