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Title: Forest trees, for shelter, ornament and profit. A practical manual for their culture and propagation
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, Arthur, 1803-1883
Subjects: Forests and forestry Trees
Publisher: New York, H. T. Williams
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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, but slender inproportion to its height. The leaves are doubly pin-nate, two or three feet in length. It is a very beau-tiful tree, and is cultivated in the Atlantic States forornament. Its appearance in winter is i^eculiar, fromthe fewness of its branches and the large size of itsterminal shoots—which is, perhaps, the origin of itsFrench name, Chicot, Stump Tree. The wood of the Coffee Tree is of a rosy color; itis fine grained, compact, strong and durable. It isvery suitable for cabinet work, and is esteemed forbuilding. Its use, however, is very limited, onaccount of its scarcity in the greater part of thecountries where it is native. The timber, even ofyoung trees, contains a very small proportion of sapwood. It is of rapid growth, and its valuable prop-erties recommend it for forest culture in suitablesituations. A deep, rich soil is requisite to insure itsfull development. The barren and fertile flowers are produced on dif-ferent trees. The seeds are large, growing in a large
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The Black Walnut. FOREST TEEES. 97 curved pod, which remains on the tree till spring.The tree takes its name from the use of its seeds as asubstitute for coflfee. For propagation, the)^ are sownearly in spring. Cuttings of the roots are also usedfor this purpose. They are cut two or three incheslong, and placed in boxes of earth, with the largerend near the surfoce, and very earl) in spring theboxes are placed in bottom heat in a propagatinghouse or hot bed. When rooted, they are planted inopen ground. HALESIA—SXOAV DROP TREE, SILVER BELL. Natural Order, Sfijracacece.Calyx, four-toothed, superior; corolla, four-cleft,twisted to the left; nut, winged, two-seeded. HaJesia tetrapfera—Silver Bell. Leaves, oblong-ovate; fruit, four-winged. The Silver Bell is found in the upper part of Vir-ginia, on the banks of the Ohio, and southward. Itsometimes grows to the height of forty or fifty feet,but is usually smaller. It is valued only as an orna-mental tree, for which purpose it is one of

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