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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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by their silkycoverings. The opening leaves, delicate in texture and colouring,may easily be mistaken for parts ofa great flower. But the leaves soon declare themselves, and the scales fall.The tree is then draped in long chenille fringes of green. The windshakes the pollen out of these staminate catkins, and the incon-spicuous green nut flowers, clustered in the tips of leafy shoots,spread their stigmas wide to catch the vitalising golden dust.The fringes now strew the grass under the tree; the bloom is past.Summer matures the crop of nuts. The first frost hastens the opening of the thick husks. Thenuts fall, and schoolboys, who have marked the tree for their ownweeks before, are on hand to bag the crop to the last sweet nut, ifsquirrels do not thwart them. In the open space in the barn loftalongside of the bin where pears are spread out to mellow, the nutsdry and sweeten. In the dead cold of winter evenings the storyof Snow Bound/ in modern settings, perhaps, but still the same 138
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