. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Xoexiiekn States and Canada. 417 The Xortliern Kaniiy-bsrry is at best a small tree, only under most favorable conditions at- taining tlie height of 25 or 30 ft., with trunk 8 or 10 in. in diameter, and is commonly only a shrub. When isolated from other trees it develops a wide rounded top with tough tortu- ous branches. The bark of trunk is of a dark- - bro\\n color and fissured into prominent ridges, which are more or less divided by fissures.
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Xoexiiekn States and Canada. 417 The Xortliern Kaniiy-bsrry is at best a small tree, only under most favorable conditions at- taining tlie height of 25 or 30 ft., with trunk 8 or 10 in. in diameter, and is commonly only a shrub. When isolated from other trees it develops a wide rounded top with tough tortu- ous branches. The bark of trunk is of a dark- - bro\\n color and fissured into prominent ridges, which are more or less divided by fissures. It inhabits the banks of streams, margins of swamps and low rich bottom-lands, or sparingl}' hill-sides where there is an abun- dance of moisture, and in these localities, in tlie month of Alaj', its lustrous green leaves and large clusters of small white flowers are sure to elicit admiration from even the casual â observer. Its blue-black fruit in autumn pre- sents a new phase of beauty, which the country children consider as also of utility, for they delight in eating the sweet fruit. It is then that the appropriateness of its namesâ Ui7d- Raisin Tree and fiiceet-herry â is apparent. The wood is fine-grained, hard and heavy, a cubic foot weighing lbs., and the j'ellow- ish brown heart-wood is of very disagreeable and remarkably persistent odor, suggestive of the odor of rancid butter. Lrnres ovate to oval, 2% to 5 in. long, mostly rounded at Ijase and acuminate at apex, sharply serrate, at maturity lustrous dark green above, yellowish fireen and with minute black dots be- neath : petioles wide, grooved above, the lower- most wavy margined, rutous-tomentoso. Floicers y^ in. broad in several-rayed cymes, .3-.'> in. across. Fruit ripe in September, oblong, on drooping pedicels in red stemmed clusters with thick blue- black glaucous skin; stone very flat oval or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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