. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. BIRCH FAMILY IVooJ.—Light brown, sapwood paler; light, soft, close-grained, not strong, checks badly in drying, not durable in contact with the ground, takes a fine polish. Used for spools, shoe pegs, wood pulp and barrel hoops. Fuel value not high, but burns with bright flame. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. ]}'intt>- Buds.—Slender, brown, one-fourth of an inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, simple, triangular, two and a half to three inches long, one and one-half to two in
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. BIRCH FAMILY IVooJ.—Light brown, sapwood paler; light, soft, close-grained, not strong, checks badly in drying, not durable in contact with the ground, takes a fine polish. Used for spools, shoe pegs, wood pulp and barrel hoops. Fuel value not high, but burns with bright flame. Sp. gr., ; weight of cu. ft., lbs. ]}'intt>- Buds.—Slender, brown, one-fourth of an inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, simple, triangular, two and a half to three inches long, one and one-half to two inches w ide, truncate or slightly wedge-shaped at base, doubly serrate, with spreading glandular teeth, acute or acuminate. They come out of the bud bright yellow green, glutinous. When full grown are dark shining green above, paler shining green beneath ; midribs yellow, raised, rounded, often marked with minute black glands, primary veins conspicuous. In autumn they turn a pale yellow. Petioles long, slender, slightly twisted, often reddish. Stipules ovate, pale green, tinged with red, caducous. Flo'ci't-rs.—April, before the leaves. Staminate flowers borne on terminal catkins which are solitary or in pairs ; when mature are from three to four inches long. These form in the late summer, and during the winter they vary from one and one-quarter to one and one-half inches long, bright pale green, and very rigid. Scales ovate, acute, apiculate. Pis- tillate aments slender, one-half inch long ; scales ovate, acute pale green, glandular; peduncles furnished with conspicuous bractlets. Fruit. — Strobiles cylindrical, an inch long, obtuse at base and apex; peduncles slender, drooping ; scales pubescent, wedge-shaped at base, three-lobed, lateral lobes larger than the White Birch, Bctuij middle. Spreading. Nut oval, acute or rounded popuUfoiui. Strobiles at base, winged ; the wings rather broader than pendulous, i' long, \\^q Most beautiful Of forest trees—The Lady o
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