Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive (1907) (14598408207)

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



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BIG SHELL-BARK HICKORY. KING-NUT. Hicorm Jaciiiiosa ()\Iielix. f.) Sarg.^
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Fig. 70. Branchlet with mature leaves and fruit, i ; branchlet in winter, 2 The superposedbranchlet is natural size: the other objects considerably reduced.71. Trunk with leaves at base. Genesee River valley, N. Y. Handbook of Tkees of the Nokthern States and Canada. 61 This stately Hickory occasionally attainsthe height of 120 ft. and 3 or 4 ft. in diameterof trunk. When growing apart from othertrees it develops an oblong or subovoid topwith drooping lower branches and with largehandsome leaves. Its truidv is vested in verymuch the same kiiid of sliaggy gray bark thati> seen on the Shiig-bark trunks, though tlielong scales as a rule do not curve outward asmuch as do those of that species. It is alsomore distinctly a tree of the bottom-lands (forwhich reason it is sometimes called the Bot-l.):n Shell-bark) associating there with theCottonwood, Hackberr_\-, Slippery Elm, Pep-peridg3. Sweet Gum, Swamp White and BurrOaks, Black and Red Maples, etc. Its wood, of which a cubic foot when