. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 332 The Oaks used to make split baskets, also for fencing and fuel. The sweet fruit is largely eaten by children, negroes, and various animals. It is the handsomest of the Chestnut leaved oaks and deserves extensive plant- ing as a very ornamental shade tree in moist situations southward. A cross with the Bur oak, Q. macrocarpa Michaux, is reported from near Cov- ington, Tennessee. 52. SWAMP WHITE OAK — Quercus bicolor Wi
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 332 The Oaks used to make split baskets, also for fencing and fuel. The sweet fruit is largely eaten by children, negroes, and various animals. It is the handsomest of the Chestnut leaved oaks and deserves extensive plant- ing as a very ornamental shade tree in moist situations southward. A cross with the Bur oak, Q. macrocarpa Michaux, is reported from near Cov- ington, Tennessee. 52. SWAMP WHITE OAK — Quercus bicolor WiUdenow Quercus Prinus platanoides Lambert. Quercus plaianoides Sudworth The Swamp oak, as it is also called, is a majestic tree of rich soils along streams and swamps from Maine and Quebec to Michigan, southward to Georgia and Arkansas, attaining a maximum height of 36 meters, with a trunk diameter of m. It is occasionally called Blue oak. The trunk is tall and straight, more or less buttressed at the base. The lower branches are stout, horizontal or often droop- ing; the tree, when not crowded, sometimes wider than high. The bark is up to 5 cm. thick, deeply fissured into nearly flat, usually confluent ridges, covered by close gray-brown or red-brown scales; on younger stems it is smooth, reddish to brown, and separates into thin large plates which peel off much as in the Sycamore tree. The twigs are stout, green, slightly hairy and shining, becoming smooth or nearly so, and passing through various shades of brown to dark brown or purplish, often somewhat glaucous. The winter buds are broadly ovoid to oval, blunt or sharp- pointed, about 3 mm. long and brown. The Fig. White Oak. i^^^^^ ^^g obovate or oblong-obovate, to 2 dm. long, pointed or rounded at the apex, narrowed and usually wedge-shaped at the base, coarsely roimd-toothed, sometimes almost lobed; they are rather thick, deep green and somewhat shining, with stout roimded pale midrib above, pale or
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