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Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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CHESTNUT. Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh.
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Fig. 153. Eranchlet bearing mature leaves and fruit the nuts. 2 : branchlet in winter, 3. 154. Trunk of tree in western North Carolina. 155. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. nvolucres (burrs) opening to hberate Handbook of Trees or the jSTorthern States axd Canada. 135 When growing in the forests the Chestnuttree attains the height of 100 ft. with straightcolumnar trunk 3 or 4 ft. iti diameter vestedin a grayish brown slia I low-ridged bark. Itis in the open fields, however, tliat it showsbest its noble form and proportions. Tliere itdevelops a very large broad or rounded headsometimes covering an area 100 ft. across withmassive branches and sliort sturdy trunksometimes 8, 10 or even 12 ft. in thickness.Its long handsome leaves iilways give it apeculiar charm. l)ut its beauty is greatly en-hanced in early sununer wlieii it puts out itsgreat clusters of fragrant golden catkins.Tiiese are succeeded in a few weeks by itshardly less conspicuous pale green clusters offruit, the preci

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