Thirty Important Forest Trees of Maryland. How to Know Them
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The wood is heavy, hard, tough and strong ; it is white excepting the comparatively small, dark- brown heart, hence the name white hickory. It is used for vehicle parts, handles and picker-sticks. It furnishes the best of fuel. This and the other hickories are very desirable both for forest and shade trees. 21 TRCCS BLACK LOCUST (Yellow Locust) {RoMnia pseudacacia L.) •-pHE black locust occurs throughout the entire i State and in all soils and conditions of moisture except in swamps. It is foun...d as a forest tree only in the mountains, where it attains a height of 80 to 100 feet and a diameter of 30 inches. Throughout the other sections of the State it occurs generally in thickets on clay banks or waste places, or singly along fence rows. The twigs and branchlets are armed with straight o r slightly curved sharp, strong spines, some- times as much as 1 inch in length which remain attached to the outer bark for many years. The bark is dark brown and divides into strips as the tree grows older.
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