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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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THE HERCULES CLUB (Aralia sptnosa) This aromatic, spiny relative of sarsaparilla and ginseng has club-like branches, leaves a yard long, and a flower cluster foulfeet high. In the North it is a rampant shrubj in the South it is a little tree
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THE TUPELO (Nyssa syhatica) Short, twiggy branches at the top of a tall trunk make a very picturesque tree. It ranges from swamp borders to high mountain slopes, and from Maine to Florida and Texas The Hercules Club ground stem, stored with plant food, sends up its lusty shoots inspring. The ailanthus, in its most ambitious efforts, never threwup such tall, thick sprouts. Fifteen to twenty feet these un-branched shoots grow, and crown themselves with umbrellas ofleaves, twice compound like those of the Kentucky coffee-tree,but much larger. In fact, no temperate zone tree has leaves ofsuch dimensions, though the oval leaflets are moderate in size,and people are likely to mistake the strong, spiny petiole of thisleaf for a branch. These leaves deserve more than a passing comment. Theycome out with a rich, silky bronze sheen in spring, and turnto red and gold in autumn. They sway in the summerwinds, giving the tree the look of a royal palm transplantedfrom the land of the orange and citr

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