The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . avy margined, and spiny tipped above the middle, 2 to 5inches long, dark green above, paler beneath, brownish yellow inlate winter, falling when new leaves appear. Flowers in March,April; staminate in hairy catkins; pistillate 3 to 5-flowered onlong spikes with bright red stigmas. Acorns annual, brown,stalked, pointed, 1 inch long, in thin cup with tapering base andsmall, closely appressed scales; nut sweet, J to § of it embraced bythe cup. Prejerred habitat, dry sandy soil near the
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . avy margined, and spiny tipped above the middle, 2 to 5inches long, dark green above, paler beneath, brownish yellow inlate winter, falling when new leaves appear. Flowers in March,April; staminate in hairy catkins; pistillate 3 to 5-flowered onlong spikes with bright red stigmas. Acorns annual, brown,stalked, pointed, 1 inch long, in thin cup with tapering base andsmall, closely appressed scales; nut sweet, J to § of it embraced bythe cup. Prejerred habitat, dry sandy soil near the coast. Dis-tribution, islands and coast from Virginia to Florida, west toMexico, and in Lower California. Uses: Superb avenue andornamental tree in the South. Grows rapidly and is easilytransplanted. Lumber better in all respects than that of Quercusalba, even. The evergreen live oak of the South is one of the handsomestof all our natiVe trees in cultivation. Specimen trees in NewOrleans, Charleston and other cities certainly challenge theObserver to mention a more perfect example of all that is to be 196. THE WHITE OAK (Quercm alba) We know this tree by its broad, round dome above a shortj pale-grey trunk; by its finger-lobed leaves, its rounded buds and itslarge, sweet acorns. It embodies our ideas of strength, dignity and independence in tree form
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