. American forest trees, by Henry H. Gibson;. Trees; Timber. 664 American Forest Trees sumed or it will mother and change to vinegar. Indians now put the berries to use less frequently than in early times when they were nearly always hungry. Manzanita is of the same family as madrona. Its range extends along the mountains of the Pacific coast ranges from Oregon to Mexico, and inland to Utah. The largest trees are about twenty feet high and a foot or less in diameter; very much divided and branched, with limbs crooked in more ways, perhaps, than those of any other representative of the vegetabl
. American forest trees, by Henry H. Gibson;. Trees; Timber. 664 American Forest Trees sumed or it will mother and change to vinegar. Indians now put the berries to use less frequently than in early times when they were nearly always hungry. Manzanita is of the same family as madrona. Its range extends along the mountains of the Pacific coast ranges from Oregon to Mexico, and inland to Utah. The largest trees are about twenty feet high and a foot or less in diameter; very much divided and branched, with limbs crooked in more ways, perhaps, than those of any other representative of the vegetable kingdom. Thousands of canes are cut from the branches, and if any living man ever saw a straight one he failed to report it. Manza- nita grows in almost impenetrable thickets on dry slopes and ridges. Its thin foliage casts so pale a shadow that the tree's shade is little cooler than the boiling sun upon the open naked ground and rocks. The bark is a reddish-chocolate color, and ex- foliates in scales of papery thinness. The heart is nearly of the same color as the bark, but the sap is white and very thin. The wood is hard, strong, stiff, but ex- ceedingly brittle. If a branch is sharply bent it will fly into splinters. The uses of the wood are numerous, but the total quantity demanded is moder- ate. Novelty stores sell small articles to tourists in California, sometimes passing the wood off as mountain mahogany which does not so much as belong to the same family. The most common articles manufactured by novelty shops from manzanita are canes, paper weights, paper knives, rulers, spoons, napkin rings, curtain rings, cuff buttons, dominos, manicure sticks, jewel boxes, match safes, pin trays, and photo 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 Gibson, Henry H. , 1855-; Maxwell, Hu, 1860-1927.
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