Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (find matches)Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptiveYear: 1907 (1900s)Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924Subjects: Trees -- North AmericaPublisher: Lowville, N. Y., The authorContributing Library: NCSU LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor: NCSU LibrariesView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView 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:WASHINGTON HAW. Crakegus cordata (Mill.) Ait.Text Appearing After Image:Fig. 296. Mature leaves and fruit ; branchlet in winter.297. Trunk of tree in Central Park, New York. Handbook of Trees of the ISTor- Stat 255 The Wasliington Haw is a beautifiil andclearly defined tree with slender thorns andmarked individuality. It attains the heightof 25 or 30 ft. at times, with lofty rounded orspreading top and a clear trunk 10 or 12 in.in diameter and (I or 7 ft. to the branches, oris sometimes only a large .spreading shruh.The bark of the trunk is of a grayish or pal(brown color and exfoliates in thin small scales.It occupies the low moist but well drainedsoil of bottom-lands and the banks of streams,but is nowhere abundant in a wild state. Ithas, however, probably been more extensivelyplanted for ornamental purposes than anyother American species, and may have becomenaturalized in. localities outside of its nativehabitat indicated on the accompanying map.It is hardy at least as far north as New York.It is said to be even more extensively grownin Europe than inNote 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.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Crataegus phaenopyrum in the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. Date: 4 September 2016, 21:14:36. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
