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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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umila) chinquapinAA. Leaves evergreen; fruit biennial. 2. Genus Castanopsis, Spach.(C. chrysophylla) golden-leaved chestnut 1. Genus CASTANEA, Adans. There are five known species of the true chestnuts, three ofwhich are American. One of these is a shrub, C. alnijolia, Nutt.The European species (C. saliva, Mill.) is the well-known sweetchestnut of Italy and Spain, as important in the diet of the peas-antry as are potatoes in Ireland. This species extends its rangeto Eastern Asia. The Japanese C. crenata, Sieb. & Zucc, has beenintroduced into American gardens. The trees begin to bear whenvery young. The nuts are not sweet like our native chestnuts,but they are good when cooked. Chestnut (Castanea dentata, Borkh.)—Oblong, thick-topped,symmetrical tree, 60 to 100 feet high, of rapid, vigorous growth.Bark grey-brown, cut into broad irregular ridges by shallowfissures; branchlets reddish, smooth. Wood brown, light, coarsetsoft, weak, durable, easily worked. Buds dark brown, ovate, 186
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Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday. Page & Company FRUITING BRANCH OF CHESTNUT (Castanea deniata) The Chestnuts pointed, small, lateral. Leaves alternate, 6 to 8 inches long,tapering at both ends, strong ribbed, toothed, shining above, palerlining; autumn colour yellow; petioles short, stout. Flowersmonoecious, in July; staminate catkins, slender, 4 to 6 incheslong, clustered at bases of leafy shoots, spreading, pollen abun-dant; pistillate, solitary or few, short stalked on base of staminatecatkins or in axils of leaves; involucre, prickly, green, styles thrustout, stigmas branched. Fruit 2 to 3 compressed nuts, thinshelled, in 4-valved spiny bur, 2 to 4 inches in diameter, globular,opening after frosts. Preferred habitat, strong, well-drained soil;pastures, hillsides, rocky woods. Distribution, southern Maine toMichigan; south to Delaware and Indiana; along mountains toAlabama and Mississippi. Uses: Valuable lumber tree, used forinterior woodwork of houses, furniture, railroad ties,

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