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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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Elm (Ulmus americana), amagnificent tree, that grows in rich intervale lands,generally near the banks of rivers or creeks. The Rock Elm (Ulmus racemosa) grows chiefly inCanada West, in the same sort of land as the fore-going. Both these Elms are very valuable wood. TiliaaiX*—Bass wood (Tilia americana). A very more open in the grain, but makes very pretty furni-ture. The nuts are like Walnuts in shape, only muchharder in the shell and the fruit more oily, not unlikethe Brazil nuts in flavour. A very pretty tree j growsin poorer soil than the Walnut. The Hickory (Carya alba) is the heaviest of allCanadian woods. Used for tool-handles, carriage-spokes and shafts, fishing-rods, &c. There aretwo varieties of this tree, the rough-bark and smooth-bark. Grows only in Canada West. The nuts of therough-barked variety are very good eating. Anacardiacciv^—Sumac (Rhus typhina). A smalland very pretty tree, that grows cliiefly in successionto the first forest crop. Indicates bad land. The
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Fig. 73.—rain-gauge at^rothamsted ; area, one-thousandth^of an acre. as fuel. The Winter Beech is a variety so called fromits retaining the dead leaves all winter. It is a smalltree, but the wood (is much valued for axe-handlesand agricultural implements. The Chestnut (Castanea vesca). This tree growsonly in Canada West. The wood is light and durable.It is very like our own Chestnut, if not Identical;the nuts are much alike. The Hombean (Ostrya virginica) is one of thehardest 0! Canadian woods. It is a small-sized tree ;the wood is used by carriage builders. Oleacea.—White Ash (Fraxinus Americana) growsin low land. A very tough and flexible wood, ofcloser grain than the English Ash. It is found allover Canada ; used by carriage makers, barrel makers,&c. It is the most flexible of Canadian woods,and is used for making hoops, also by the Indians formaking snow-shoe bows. soft wood, something like our Sycamore; useful forturning and carving ; also used in furniture andmachinery,

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