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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SOUTHERN RED OAK. SCHNECKS OAK. Qiiercus Texana Bnckl.^
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Fig. i6i. Branchlet with leaves and fruit and young acorns, i ; branchlet in winter bearing younuacorns and leaf-buds. 162. Trunk of tree in Meramec River valley, Mo. Handbook of Trees of the Xortherx States axd Ca^^vda. 141 This tree in tlio ricli bottom-lands of theWabasli River Imsin i> said to attain a lieiiihtof nearly 200 ft., witli sturdy buttressed trunksometimes 7-8 ft. in diameter and 80-00 ft.to its l)ranches — dimensions which wouldmake this one of tlie lari.est of the AmericanOaks — but sueli a size is very exceptional, asit is usually a niucii smaller tree. It is com-mon alonjj; the banks of streams and bottom-lands of the )\Iississi))pi basin in company withthe Cottonwood. River Birch, Sour Gum, Sweet(Jum. llackberry. Coffee-tree, Red and SilverMaples, etc. In the extreme western part ofits range it is sonutimes found fruiting as alarge shrub. Its wood is considered by lumbermen as of better grade tlian that of the Northern Red Oak. It is applied to the same uses

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