. The book of woodcraft . Heart-wood reddish brown, sap white; heavy, weighing37 lbs. to cubic foot. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long. Mass. toMo. and south to Gulf. Sycamore, Plane Tree, Buttonball or Buttonwood {Plataniis occidentalis) One of the largest of our trees; up to 140 feet high; com-monly hollow. Wood, Ught brownish, weak; hard to spht;heavy for its strength. A cubic foot weighs 35 lbs. Little Forestry 437 use for weather work. Famous for shedding its bark aswell as its leaves. Leaves 4 to 9 inches long. Canada tothe Red-Bud or JudasTree (Cercis cana-densis) Small tree of bottomlan
. The book of woodcraft . Heart-wood reddish brown, sap white; heavy, weighing37 lbs. to cubic foot. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long. Mass. toMo. and south to Gulf. Sycamore, Plane Tree, Buttonball or Buttonwood {Plataniis occidentalis) One of the largest of our trees; up to 140 feet high; com-monly hollow. Wood, Ught brownish, weak; hard to spht;heavy for its strength. A cubic foot weighs 35 lbs. Little Forestry 437 use for weather work. Famous for shedding its bark aswell as its leaves. Leaves 4 to 9 inches long. Canada tothe Red-Bud or JudasTree (Cercis cana-densis) Small tree of bottomlands, rarely 50 feethigh; so called from itsabundant spring cropof tiny rosy blossoms,coming before theleaves, the latter 2 to6 inches broad. Ju-das tree because it blushed when Judas hanged himselfon it (Keeler.) Its wood is dark, coarse and heavy. 438 The Book of Woodcraft A cubic foot weighs 40 lbs. Md. to Iowa and south-ward. Sugar Maple, Rock Maple or Hard Maple(Acer saccharum) A large, splendid forest tree, 80 to 120 feet high; red inautumn. Wood hard, strong, tough and heavy but notdurable. A cubic foot weighs 43 lbs. It enjoys with Beech,Hickory, etc., the sad distinction of being a perfect to this it has been exterminated in some regions.
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