The tree book - A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation (1920) (14596225258)

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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 ENGELMANN SPRUCE (Picea Engelmanni) This species has blue-green foliage, soft and flexible, but sharp at the tips. The wood is pale and soft, a valuable lumber forbuilding in the Western mountains. The bark is cinnamon red and breaks into loose scales The Spruces Black as its name is, the wood is almost white, and the paperneeds little or no bleaching. The Engelmann Spruce (P. Engelmanni, Engelm.) isthe white spruce of the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade rangein Washington and Oregon. It crowns the lower and higherpeaks, climbing to altitudes between one and two miles abovethe level of the sea. In the rocky sides of glacier-polished ravinesthese hardy trees find foothold, and set their spires like serriedranks of spearsmen to cover the bare cliffs. Snow loads themdown for many months of the year ; they can survive that, buttheir destruction comes when a fire sweeps over them, killingall it touches, for the cambium of these trees is protected by avery thin bark. The seeds and seedl

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