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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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. Buds scaly, ovate, red, lustrous.Leaves 4-angled, pale at first, then blue-green, crowded to erectposition on the twig. Flowers: conspicuous; staminate reddishpurple; pistillate green with red tips on scales. Fruit oblong-cylindrical cones, 6 to 9 inches long, purplish brown; scales plain,1 inch broad at apex, closely overlapping and concealing thebracts. Preferred habitat, mountain slopes, at 5,000 to 7,000 feetelevation. Distribution, Cascade range in southern Oregon,throughout the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Uses: Wood makes packing cases and cheap buildings. Treeplanted as an ornamental in western Europe. Scarcely hardy inour Eastern States. The magnificent silver fir, as John Muir calls it, is one ofthe noblest trees of the Northwest, a lover of the mountain slopes,which it climbs to two miles above sea level before it reaches itslimit. On moraines, at an elevation of 7,000 to 8,000 feet, itgrows to a height of 200 to 250 feet and a diameter of 5 to 7 feet. 84
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Winter buds (some leaves cut away to show buds) THE BALSAM FIR (Abies lasiocarpa) The blue-green leaves and the pale or white bark of twigs give this tree a spectral expression. The leaves are long, blunt andcurved so as to stand erect. This giant tree of the Northwestern mountains is comparatively worthless, except for fuel

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