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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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not inferior to the moststudied effect of taste in the disposal of grounds. The California white oak is the largest and most graceful ofthe Western oaks. Its branches end in long shoots that arependulous like those of the weeping willow. The trunk branchesnear the ground and rises and spreads out like a great fan. ABritish elm often has the same habit—our American elm, some-times. The dome is broader even than that of our Eastern whiteoak. The twigs are willowy at first, but there is a surprisingtortuousness acquired with added years. The limbs are gnarledin the most complex way. Picturesqueness gone mad wellcharacterises the expression of the tree in its bare winter aspect. The Sir Joseph Hooker Oak, 100 feet high, 7 feet in diam-eter of trunk and 150 feet in spread of dome, on General Bidwellsfarm in Butte County, California, was named after the greatEnglish botanist on the occasion of his visit with Asa Gray in 1877. The tree is always broader than it is high, and bears a pro 194
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THE CALIFORNIA WHITE OAK (Quercm lohata) The largest and most picturesque of the Western oaks. The dome is broader than high ; the outer twigs droop like a weepingwillows, but acquire a wonderful tortuousness later. Lumbermen have spared this tree because its wood is not strong. Giganticindividuals stand in the park-Uke valleys, set round by mountain peaks, making a landscape which is unrivalled in any country

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