. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. OAK FAMILY tire subject of spring and autumn tints is becoming more and more interesting as it is more carefully slucHed. It is now ue I ,,Hl that ll,e frost is not a factor in the j, ami that both s])nng and autumn tints arise from chan-res in the ,ter of the chlornphyll ; the uue when the chloro- phyll is not yet mature aiul the oilier when it is dying. 'riie acorns are cliaracteristic, an. need never be mistaken. 'I'hey are th largest borne
. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. OAK FAMILY tire subject of spring and autumn tints is becoming more and more interesting as it is more carefully slucHed. It is now ue I ,,Hl that ll,e frost is not a factor in the j, ami that both s])nng and autumn tints arise from chan-res in the ,ter of the chlornphyll ; the uue when the chloro- phyll is not yet mature aiul the oilier when it is dying. 'riie acorns are cliaracteristic, an. need never be mistaken. 'I'hey are th largest borne by any oak of the Biennial group, and sit in Hat shallow cups with prominent rims and close scales. 'I'he kernel is white and extremely bitter. Wildwood creatures care little for them and they retnain under the trees all win- ter unless eaten by swinb. The Ral Oak ranges farthrr north than any other of the iiiennials ; it has been found on the banks of the Saskatchewan. Climatic conditions so allect It that there it ceases to be a tree, nor is it even a slirub, but it transforms itself by stress of circumstances into bin-Is and knobs and low knotted heads only a foot or two Ri'il Oak, Qui-rcii<: rubra. Acorns ^' to \%' long. SCARLET OAK Qiit'iriis (ccdjit 7. Usually seventy or eighty feet liigh, maximum heis^ht one luin- dred and sixty, will, slender trunk, rather small branches open narrow head. Prefers a dry, sandy soil. Kan-es from Maine central New York to southern Ontario, west throu^rh A icliigan and Minnesota to Nebraska, south on the Allcghanics°o North Carolina and Tennessee. .Jl7^^'~?'''^ ^''"V"' ''â '""' shallow fissures, scaly. Youncr stems or t fv" P ' "V?"''^ "^^i ''"'^^ '^â¢â "^^â¢"- '""'â¢â¢â¢ ^â¢â¢^''- "f bark ';e Ih^h or griy. Hranchlets at first scurfv, later pale ^neen and chitvnt/ nnaiiy ieUdibh, at last light brown. ^»!, 354. Please note that
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