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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fruit and details of lruit A. Pistillate flowers fi. Staminate flowers THE CHERRY BIRCH (Betula lento) The brown bark has a silky outside layer marked with horizontal slits, just as cherry trees have. On old trunks this smoothlayer is replaced by rough, broken plates. The wood is like black cherry. The twigs have a pleasantf aromatic taste, quiteunlike the rank, bitter taste of cherry bark. The leaves come out in pairs from side buds in late April. The staminate catkinsare in evidence in winter, sealed up tight at the ends of twigs. In early April they shake out their golden pollen on every breeze,and the erect green catkins of pistillate flowers show themselves close at hand. In early summer the oval, erect cones shedtheir seeds. One figure shows the 3-lobed bracts still hanging by threads from the central cone stem
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Fruit A. Pistillate flower B. Staminate flower THE RED BIRCH (Betula nigra) This tree blossoms in March, before the leaves, and its winged seeds are falling in June from the erect, oblong cones. The-trees are pyramidal, with many drooping, horizontal branches. The bark of limbs and old twigs frays into ribbons. Through-out, its colour is red. The glossy foliage turns to yellow before falling The Birches satiny, often showing what the cabinetmaker calls landscapeor clouded areas of unusual beauty. The Western Black Birch (B. occidentalis, Hook.) growsfrom the Black Hills westward, widening its range to south andnorths into Alaska and California along the coast, and followingthe Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. It is widespread, butnowhere common. This graceful little tree is a true birch inhabit and in the lustrous, horizontal lenticelled bark, the bronzecolour of which is quite sufficient to justify its name and to identifythe tree. Unlike the cherry birch, this tree sheds its bark in t

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