The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation

Description:

Identifier: treebookpopularg1920roge (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Winter buds B. Fruit A. Flowers not fully open THE AMERICAN ELM (Ufmus Americana) The leaf is unsymmetrical at the base, and has strong parallel ribs. The winter twigs show plump, blunt flower buds,larger than the slim, pointed leaf buds. In March the flowers appear, giving the bare tree top a warm, purplish colour. The pale-green seeds dangle in profuse clusters in May, falling before the leaves are full grown. Each seed has a circular wing with twoincurving hooks at the top. Elm lumber is hard, tough, heavy and cross-grained-. The bark is grey and divided by deep furrow>into scaly ridges
Text Appearing After Image:
The Elms and the Hackberrie? burden of leaves. The Briton is stocky; the American, airilygraceful. One stands heavily upon its heels, the other ontiptoe. One has a compact crown, the other an open, loose one.In October the English elm is still bright, dark green; the Amer-ican elm has passed into the sere and yellow leaf. The elm is the favourite tree of the hang bird, or Baltimoreoriole, in America. In winter the deserted nests swing from thehigh outer limbs, where the leaves concealed them in nestingtime. The English elm at home is the red-breasts tree. Thesebirds build, not in the upper limbs, but in those that grow downnear the trunk, and come earliest into leaf. Classical literature proves the antiquity and the great im-portance of the elms of southern Europe. The Romans usedelm leaves as forage for cattle. In the vineyards elms wereplanted to support the vines. The trees were well pruned sothey should not overshadow the grapes. It was counted danger-ous to give bees freedom to v

Note About Images
Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.