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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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n, falling each year in autumn. Flowers.—May, with the leaves ; monoecious ; staminate sessile,sub-globose, yellow ; pistillate oblong with light-colored bracts andnearly orbicular rose-colored scales. Fruit.—Cones mature autumn of first season ; ovoid, obtuse, 5^-^inch long with few light brown rounded scales. Bark.—Thin, roughened with small rounded red-brown scales. Wood.—Heavy, hard, slightly resinous, very strong, durable insoil, light brown. Range.—Newfoundland south to Maryland and West Virginia,west to Minnesota and the Rocky Mountains, through British Colum-bia to Alaska. Distribution in West Virginia.—A few trees near Cranesville,Preston County, growing in a swamp. Habitat.—Prefers swamps and lake borders, but thrives in manyother places. Notes.—Tamarack is our only native cone-bearer with deciduousleaves. This tree has been transplanted in several places in the Statewhere it makes a good appearance on the lawn. 40 W. VA. AGRL EXPERIMENT STATION (Bulletin 175
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RED SPRUCE September, 1920) WEST VIRGINIA TREES 41 RED SPRUCEPicea rubra, (DuRoi) Deitr. Form.—Heig-ht 70-80 feet, diameter 2-3 feet; trunk straight, con-tinuous, free from limbs to a considerable height when in close stands;crown conical; limbs somewhat drooping below, horizontal in themiddle, ascending above. Leaves.—Crowded and diverging in all directions from the twig;rounded or acute points, ^-^ inch long, dark yellow-green. Flowers.—April-May; monoecious; staminate oval, almost ses-sile, red ; pistillate oblong, with thin rounded scales. Fruit.—Cones ovate-oblong, narrowed from middle to acuteapex; 1J42 inches long; scales reddish-brown with entire margins. 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 ele

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