. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the Noetheen States and Canada. 1S3 The White Elm is one of the largest trees of the Atlantic States, frequently attaining the height of 100 or 125 ft. with a trunk 6 to 10 ft. in diameter. These large trunks are widely buttressed at base and in the forest usually columnar and undivided to the height of 30-60 ft. or more. Its beautiful form when growing in the open field is a familiar and beloved feature of almost every landscape of New England and the Northern
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the Noetheen States and Canada. 1S3 The White Elm is one of the largest trees of the Atlantic States, frequently attaining the height of 100 or 125 ft. with a trunk 6 to 10 ft. in diameter. These large trunks are widely buttressed at base and in the forest usually columnar and undivided to the height of 30-60 ft. or more. Its beautiful form when growing in the open field is a familiar and beloved feature of almost every landscape of New England and the Northern States. These trees usually divide within 20 or 30 ft. from the ground into few large branches, which rise upward, ramify and curve gracefully outward, forming a broad rounded or flat top with more or less drooping branchlets. The trunk and large limbs are often fringed to the ground with short contorted branches. It inhabits naturally moist bottom-lands and the borders of streams. The wood when absolutely dry weighs pounds per cubic foot, is strong, tough and diflicult to split, and is a favorite timber for wagon making, particularly the hubs of wheels, and for saddle-trees, tool-handles, Leaves oval to oblong-obovate. rounded or heart- shaped on one side at base and short or wedge- shaped on the other, abruptly acumiDate at apex, doubly serrate, dark green and smooth or nearly so above, paler beneath. Flowers, before the leaves, in fascicles, with slender drooping .iointed pedicels: calyx with 7-9 short rounded lobes: ovary and styles light green. Fruity ripening as the leaves unfold, an oval-obovate samara short stipitate, glabrous with ciliate 1. A. W., II, 33. 2. For genus see p. 432. f^y "^^i^ ly ^, r^J- . A :*' Jn/T^zz^— I xX'^^^^-v*. ^ t § ..''^^r^'l i ^ ' ,\\\^^ • J\ * r^^ ^>hr^^"0^ Z"^ ">wi.'^ ^ A^v^^ tA ^y^ '^^^.Jzfyv ;' y-:^ c1 ^'jiiC^ Si rot^"^ ^f \i vv 3vy^ \ ^^^ "^ & ^- Y\\ % ' ^ 'i'"
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