Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive (1907) (14804992033)

Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries



Text Appearing Before Image:
LARGE-FRUITED MOUNTAIN-ASH. Sorhus scopulina Greene.^
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 280. Branchlet with leaves and fruit; fruit in seqtion and scattered seeds; branchlet in winter. 281. Trunk in western New York. 11 AADi; Ti OI- ■IN-; X( i;x S-i ( axai 241 The Large-fruited Mountain-Ash is a hand-soiiie tree, sometimes attaining the height of,iO ft. witli trunk 12 in. in diameter and vestedin a smooth lustrous silvery gray hark. Whenisolated from other trees it develops a .sym-metrieal ovoid or rounded top. It is distinctlya horeal tree, heing at liomc along the bordersof s\vam)is and streams and liy the springson mountain sides of the far north, where tln^beauty of its llmvers and fruit are unsurpassedby those of any otiier tree of those regions.The tree has long been considered identical witha northern Asiatic species, the F. mnihucifoliaC. & S. (Elder-leaf Mountain-Ash) and hasbeen so named in the books generally uponAmerican trees. Its distinctness from thatspecies, however, has recently been pointed outand it has been given the name S. scopuUna.Though