The tree book - A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation (1920) (14596366117)

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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



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THE BALSAM FIR (Abies bahamea) Blunt, flat leaves, pale beneath and 2-ranked on the twig, characterise this species. On the old branches the leave*are more sparse and scattered. The oblong cones are erect on the stem. The bark of young trunks and branches are markedby pockets which discharge clear balsam when tapped
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THE BALSAM FIR (Abies balsamea) The leaves persist for eight years. Hence the twigs are covered. The blunt leaves are 2-ranked by the twistingof their bases. The lower figure shows leaves all around the twigs. It is so on fertile shoots. This picture alsoshows young, leafy shoots coming out below. A pistillate cone-flower is held erect CHAPTER IX: THE FIRS Genus ABIES, Link. Trees of pyramidal habit with wide-spreading horizontallimbs bearing thick foliage masses. Wood weak, coarse grained.Bark smooth until quite old, pale, thin and blistered with over-flowing resin vescicles; later, deeply and irregularly furrowed.Leaves usually flat, blunt, 2-ranked, persistent for 8 to 10 years,leaving circular scars. Flowers in axillary, scaly cones, pistillateerect on upper branches; staminate on under side of brancheslower down on the tree. Fruit annual, erect cones whose scalesfall off at maturity; seed resinous. KEY TO SPECIES A. Leaves flat and grooved down the middle. B. Colour of leaves dar