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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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clapboards and shingles. A hardy and beautifulpark tree. The pyramidal shape of the young shingle oak and the hori-zontal and drooping postures of its slender branches remind usstrongly of the pin oak. The pins, however, are missing, aswe will observe when the tree is bare; and the foliage in summerquickly corrects any talse impressions. Even from a distance thefoliage masses of the two trees differ distinctly. The clefts andangles that make so large a part of pin-oak leaves are all missingin those of the shingle oak. Willow or peach leaves are more likethese plain-margined ones. The wayfaring man will never imaginethis tree to be an oak until he sees the acorns. The shingle oak grows quickly, as the long, leafy shoots inearly summer prove. The star-shaped arrangement of the leaveson the short branches is most interesting, and there is a wavy curlin the margins, as if they would each turn aside to let the sunlightin to the branches less favourably situated. So little interference 220
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