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Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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Fig. 167. A leaf from vigorous shoot and fruiting branchlet, with mature and young acorns, i;branchlet in late winter bearing young acorns and leaf-buds, 2.168. Trunk of tree at Biltmore, N. C. Handbook of Tkebs of the Kokthern States and Ca 147 The Scarlet Oak attains the lioight of 70 or80 ft. with trunk diameter of 2 or 3 ft., cov-ered with a dark brown shallow-ridged bark;reddish internally. Its habit of growth whenisolated from other trees is to form a roundedor oblong head often quite irregular and alwaysbeautiful in summer on account of its hand-some deeply-lobed leaves. But it is not untilit takes on its brilliant autumnal colors thaiits beauty and individuality are especially pro-nounced. Then the appropriateness of its nameis at once evident, as it assumes a brilliantscarlet color, and other tints of red, and re-tains them until late in the autumn after theleaves of many of its associates have witheredand fallen. It is an abundant tree over alarge portion of its range, parti

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