The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE SLIPPERY ELM (Ulmus fulva) Note the bud at the tip of the upper twig. Its scales are coated with tawny hairs. The obovate or circular samaras arfripe in May. They are hairy only on the seed body; the wing is smooth. The belated buds produce leafy shoots. The leavesare large and very harsh when crumpled or stroked with the finger. They have the characteristic shape, straight ribs and saw-toothed margin of all elms. The bark is reddish brown and cleft into narrow, loose flakes by
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE SLIPPERY ELM (Ulmus fulva) Note the bud at the tip of the upper twig. Its scales are coated with tawny hairs. The obovate or circular samaras arfripe in May. They are hairy only on the seed body; the wing is smooth. The belated buds produce leafy shoots. The leavesare large and very harsh when crumpled or stroked with the finger. They have the characteristic shape, straight ribs and saw-toothed margin of all elms. The bark is reddish brown and cleft into narrow, loose flakes by shallow fissures. The Elms and the Hackberries or mixed, greenish, axillary staminate, clustered at base of sea-sons shoot; pistillate solitary, in axils of leaves, green, withspreading, 2-horned stigma. Fruits, September, oblong, thin,fleshed berry, i to J inch long, purple, sweet; hangs all habitat, moist soil along streams or marshes. Distribu-tion, Southern Canada west to Puget Sound; south to Florida,Tennessee, Missouri, Texas and New Mexico. Uses: Planted forshade and ornament. Wood used for cheap furniture and fencing. It is easy to mistake the hackberry for an elm. The habitof the two trees leads the casual observer astray. It takes asecond look to note the finer spray of the hackberry twigs, itsmore horizontal, less drooping branches. The warty bark ischaracteristic. The little axillary sugar berries are very differentfrom elm samaras. There are few months in the year when fruitsare not to be found, green or ripe, on the tree. They are thedelight of birds throughout hard winte
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