Practical Forestry: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting, and Cultivation, with a Description, and the Botanical and Popular Names of All the Indigenous Trees of the United StatesOrange Judd Company, 1910 - 299 páginas |
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... pine and white- wood shavings , and at these times I heard discussions almost daily in regard to wood , timber , trees , their quality , value , and variety . My father also owned a farm in the heavily wooded regions of Western New York ...
... pine and white- wood shavings , and at these times I heard discussions almost daily in regard to wood , timber , trees , their quality , value , and variety . My father also owned a farm in the heavily wooded regions of Western New York ...
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... pines , the embryo is provided with more than two cotyledons , and there are from three to ten seed - leaves instead of two , but there are never less than two . As the seedlings grow up into Fig . 1. - SEEDLING MAPLE . trees , their ...
... pines , the embryo is provided with more than two cotyledons , and there are from three to ten seed - leaves instead of two , but there are never less than two . As the seedlings grow up into Fig . 1. - SEEDLING MAPLE . trees , their ...
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... pine , tulip tree , and white - heart hickory , but this is more in appearance than reality , the difference in color between the old and new wood being but slight . The change from soft - wood to heart - wood is not sudden , but ...
... pine , tulip tree , and white - heart hickory , but this is more in appearance than reality , the difference in color between the old and new wood being but slight . The change from soft - wood to heart - wood is not sudden , but ...
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... pine , and spruce among the evergreens or coniferæ . The seed of oaks , hickory , and nut - bearing trees generally , are not scattered any considerable distance from the parent stock , except through the agency of mice , squirrels ...
... pine , and spruce among the evergreens or coniferæ . The seed of oaks , hickory , and nut - bearing trees generally , are not scattered any considerable distance from the parent stock , except through the agency of mice , squirrels ...
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... , but with a downward slope , with a corresponding tongue , and the two are then neatly fitted together , the tongue on one entering that. Fig . 13. - TRIANGULAR GRAFT . Fig . 16. - GRAFTED PINE . BUDDING AND GRAFTING . 47.
... , but with a downward slope , with a corresponding tongue , and the two are then neatly fitted together , the tongue on one entering that. Fig . 13. - TRIANGULAR GRAFT . Fig . 16. - GRAFTED PINE . BUDDING AND GRAFTING . 47.
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abundant Acorns bark bracts branches branchlets buds California catkins cion climate clusters color common Cones coniferæ conifers cultivation deciduous dioecious drupe evergreen evergreen trees feet in diameter five Florida Flowers small FOREIGN SPECIES forest trees forty feet high four inches long genus grafting green growth hardy heart-shaped hickory inch in diameter inches long indigenous large number large tree leaflets leaves lobes Maple Mexico monoecious mountains North North Carolina Northern Oak.-Leaves oblong obovate obtuse ornamental tree oval ovate panicles petioles Pine Pine.-Leaves plants racemes reaching a hight reddish regions roots round scales season seed seedlings serrate slender small tree smooth sometimes South Southern species species and varieties spring stem Sugar Maple thick thin thirty feet high three inches long timber transplanted trees or shrubs twenty feet high twigs usually Washington Territory West Indies westward whitish wings winter wood Wood white yellow young
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Página 268 - Leaves, one or two in a sheath, from one and a half to two and a half inches long, when in pairs, flat on the inner side, single ones round, very rigid, and sharp-pointed.
Página 281 - Siebold and Zuccarini. — Umbrella Pine. A very curious and remarkable conifer, from Mount Kojasan, in the Island of Nippon, Japan, where it forms a large spreading tree, a hundred feet high. Introduced into England in 1861, and a few years later into this country. The leaves are from three to four inches long, and about one-eighth broad, double-ribbed, leathery, and blunt-pointed ; dark-green, and crowded in whorls of thirty to forty at the joints or nodes of the branchlets. Cones about three inches...
Página 101 - This sprouting appears to be a natural characteristic of the tree, and when the roots are disturbed, broken, or otherwise injured in working the soil, the habit is intensified many fold. From whence came the disagreeable odor, or from which sex of the flowers, has been a subject that has provoked much discussion ; but it is usually credited to the staminate flowers borne on trees distinct and separate from those producing pistillate, and this has led some nurserymen to seek this sex from which to...
Página 197 - Sylva," and later published in this country, will long remain a monument to the industry and scientific attainments of the authors, but recent discoveries, especially in the Rocky Mountain regions and westward, has not only added many new species of the oak, but has also made it necessary to revise some of the earlier classifications of the members of this genus. The late Dr. George Engelmann, of St. Louis, Mo., a most capable botanist, devoted much time to the study of the oaks, and published an...