. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. QUAKING ASP. TREMBLING POPLAR. POPPLE. FopuJus tremulokles i Fig. 122. Branchlets with mature and young leaves, i; isolated empty capsules, 2; a capsuleand its actual contents, procured by confining the capsule at the time of opening, 3 ; branchlet inwinter with cluster of flower-buds near tip, 4. 123. Trunk of tree in Essex Co., N. Y. Note the transition from smooth young bark torough old bark. Handbook of Tkkes of Tin Xoir ATKS AND 109 The (Quaking Asp is usually a slender treed
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. QUAKING ASP. TREMBLING POPLAR. POPPLE. FopuJus tremulokles i Fig. 122. Branchlets with mature and young leaves, i; isolated empty capsules, 2; a capsuleand its actual contents, procured by confining the capsule at the time of opening, 3 ; branchlet inwinter with cluster of flower-buds near tip, 4. 123. Trunk of tree in Essex Co., N. Y. Note the transition from smooth young bark torough old bark. Handbook of Tkkes of Tin Xoir ATKS AND 109 The (Quaking Asp is usually a slender treedeveloping in the open a loose rounded top,and tlie trunk seldom more than 18 in. or 2 diameter, but in forests where it attainsits largest size it grows to a height of 90 or100 ft. with trunk sometimes 3 ft. in l);irk of branches and young trunks is of apale yellowish green color, or often nearlywhite, and on older trunks becomes fissuredand divided into nearly black scaly ridges. Aconspicuous feature of the tree is the constantigitation of its small rounded leaves, occasionedeven by the sliglitest breezes, on account oftheir long flattened stems.
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