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Title: West Virginia trees
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, A. B. (Alonzo Beecher), 1873-1944
Subjects: Trees Shrubs
Publisher: Morgantown
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ins. Bark.—Roughened by thin, irregular-shaped brown scales. Wood.—Light, soft, close-grained, not strong, pale in color, withwhitish sapwood. Range.—Newfoundland to West Virginia and southw^ard alongthe Alleghany jNIountains to northern Georgia, west to Minnesota. Distribution in West Virginia.—Growing at high elevation inGrant, Tucker, Randolph, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Webster, Nicholasand Greenbrier counties. Now largely removed by lumbermen. Habitat.—Well-drained uplands ; also on mountain tops and occa-sionally on borders of swamps. Notes.—Since this species is the only native spruce in West Vir-ginia there is no cause for confusing it with anything else. Norwayspruce has much larger cones. Originally red spruce was one of ourprincipal lumber trees, but when it is removed there is but little nat-ural reproduction. Often planted for shade. Wood used for con-struction, musical instruments, furniture, aeroplanes and paper pulp. W. VA. AGRL EXPERIMENT STATION (Bulletin ITS
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HEMLOCK September, 1920) WEST VIRGINIA TREES 43 HEMLOCK Tsuga canadensis, (L.) Carr. Form.—Height 60-100 feet, diameter 2-4 feet; trunk with limbsnearly to the ground when in the open but free from them to a con-sideral)le height when in dense stands ; slender horizontal Ijranchesform a p)ramidal crown which is often irregular. Leaves.—Arranged on all sides of the branch, but appearing as ifin two ranks, flat, thin, rounded or slightly notched at the tip, aboutYz inch long, dark green a1)Ove, pale beneath. Flowers.—April-May ; monoecious; staminate in the axils, glo-bose, yellow ; pistillate terminal, pale green, oblong, with broad bractsand short pinkish scales. Fruit.—Cones mature each autumn; borne on slender stalks;ovate, about Yx of an inch long; scales rounded, about as broad aslong; seeds about j4 inch long, half as long as their wings. Bark.—With deep fissures on old trunks and prominent roundedridges; inner bark cinnamon-red. Wood.—Light, medium hard, brittle, coa

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