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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 HOP TREE (Ptelea trifoliata) Pale-green fruits in clusters, the seeds with circular wings all around, remind us of the elm fruits. They illuminate the glossydark foliage all summer. There are few daintier, cooler-looking trees that grow in shade The Viburnums and the Elders stout branches, like V.rufidulurn. It is found from Connecticutto Georgia, and west to Michigan, Kansas, and Texas. InEuropean parks and gardens and in those of our Eastern Statesthis little stag bush is often cultivated for its handsome flowersand foliage and its persistent fruit. 2. Genus SAMBUCUS, Linn. Quick-growing, stout-branched trees and shrubs, with pithybranchlets and ill-smelling sap. Wood dense, light brown, soft.Leaves pinnate, of 5 leaflets, opposite, deciduous. Flowers small,perfect, white, in broad compound cymes. Fruits small, blue orblack, juicy, berry-like, each with 3 to 5 nutlets. KEY TO SPECIES A. Leaves and young shoots pubescent; fruit destitute ofbloom. (S. Mexicana) Mexican elder AA. L

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