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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
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HOP HORNBEAM. IRON-WOOD. Osirya Yirgimana (Mill.) Koch.
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Fig. 131. Branchlet with mature leaves and fruit, i : involucral sacs opened, to show nutlets, and detached nutlets, 2 ; branchlets in winter bearing young staminate aments and leaf-buds, 3. 132. Trunk of tree, in Lewis Co., N. Y. 133. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Tkkks of the )^ortheen States and Canada. 117 The Hop iloriibeain is a liaiidsome tree ofmedium size rarely over 60 or 70 ft. in heightor 2 ft. in diameter of trunk. When isohitedit develops a broad rounded top of many smalltough branches, and wlien covered with its richyellow-green leaves and pale hop-like fruit is ahandsome object. The bark of trunk is roughwith narrow loose elongated scales. It in-habits well-drained gravelly ridges and slopesand in tlie nortliern Atlantic states, where it isabundant and reaches its largest size, is as-sociated with the Beech, Sugar Maple, YellowBirch, White and Cork Elms, Butternut,White Ash, etc. Its wood is heavy, a cubic foot when abso-lutely dry weighing 51.63 l

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