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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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eek, Sambuke, 2l musical wind instrument made of the hollowstems of the elder. The Mexican Elder (5. Mexicana, DC.) grows to 30 feet 451 The Viburnums and the Elders high in the river bottoms of western Texas, and west to California,and south through Mexico and Central America. It is a squat,round-headed tree, with its short trunk bulging suddenly at thebase. A soft pubescence covers leaves and twigs. The shiny,black fruit, borne in loose clusters, is eaten by Indians and Mex-icans. The tree is often planted near homes for its shade andfruit. The Pale Elder (S. glauca, Nutt.) is smooth throughout,and gets its name from the whitish floury covering of the berries.The leaves are pale beneath. The berries are edible. Thiselder grows from British Columbia to southern California, andeast scantily and reduced in stature as far as Montana and Utah.It is sometimes planted as an ornamental. Trees from 30 to 50feet high are seen in dry, gravelly soil in the coast region, especiallyin Oregon. 45*
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PART IfFORESTRY CHAPTER I: FORESTRY IN THE UNITED STATES Forestry is the intelligent management of woodlands toserve some definite purpose. Three distinct types of forestsresult from working toward as many different objects, eachlegitimate, and serving the countrys needs. 1. The Supply Forest is managed upon a commercial basis.Its object is the production of wood, and Natures resources arebent to this end. How to get the highest grade of lumber of thebest kinds, in the greatest quantity and at the lowest cost on agiven area and in a given time—these are the problems of thesupply forest. At the same time, the aim is to improve thecondition of the forest and to make it permanent and self-sustaining in a physical as well as a commercial sense, payinggood returns for the cost of its maintenance. Such complexproblems tax the judgment of the wisest men. Action, positiveand aggressive, is demanded in the supply forest. Beside it,other types of forestry seem negative. 2. The Protective Fore

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