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
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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SWAMP SPANISH OAK. Quercus pagodcefolia (Ell.) Ashe.
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I?4- Trunk of tree with a spray of foliage at base. Near Mt. Carmel 111Sche:^ ofrcaL:!, r = - ™* •^--^ ^^ -•^» ^ ^«^ •» ^r. J. Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada. 153 This beautiful and stately Oak attains theheight of upwards of 100 ft. in forest-growthwith straight columnar trunk 4 or 5 ft. indiameter. When isolatiil from other trees, asoccasionally found on river banks where it hasroom for full development, its massive branchesform a wide rounded toj), and its ample party-colored leaves as they display successively theirdark-green and silvery-white surfaces, whenagitated by the wind, make it a beautiful ob-ject. The bark of trunk is of a dark gray colorfissured into rather narrow ridges of firm smallscales. It is distinctly a tree of alluvial bottom-landsand the banks of streams subject to inunda-tion, reaching its greatest development innorthern Mississippi and eastern Arkansaswhere it is a very valuable timber tree. The wood is heavy, hard, and strong

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