Handbook of the Trees of New England: With Ranges Throughout the United ...
Handbook of the Trees of New England: With Ranges Throughout the United ...
Lorin Low Dame, Henry Brooks
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Sterile flower, back view. 5. Fertile flower. 6. Fruiting branch. Carya tomentosa, Nutt. Hicoria alba,, Britton. MocKERNUT. White-heakt Hickory. Walnut. Habitat and Range. — In various soils ; woods, dry, rocky ridges, mountain slopes. Niagara peninsula and westward. Maine and Vermont, — not reported ; New Hampshire, — sparingly along the coast ; Massachusetts, — rather common eastward ; Rhode Island and Connecticut, — common. South to Florida, ascending 3500 feet in Virginia ; west to Kansas, ...Nebraska, Missouri, Indian territory, and Texas. Digitized by VjOOQIC 62 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. Habit. — A tall and rather slender tree, 50-70 feet" high, with a diameter above the swell of the roots of 2-3 feet ; attaining much greater dimensions south and west ; trunk erect, not shaggy, separating into a few rather large limbs and sending out its upper branches at a sharp angle, forming a handsome, wide-spreading, pyramidal head. Bark. — Bark of trunk dark gray, thick, hard, close, and rough, becoming narrow-rugged-furrowed; crinkly on small trunks and branches; leaf -scars prominent; season's shoots stout, brown, downy or dusty puberulent, dotted, resinous- scented.
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