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Identifier: gardenforestjour41891sarg (find matches)
Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he extremeforms might readily be mistaken for distinct species if judgedby this characteristic only. These leaves, tan-colored and dead,rustle on the twigs till the buds begin to swell in the spring.The bark of the trunks is black, finely checked and rough,shading off to the smooth iron-gray of the limbs, which are October 28, 1891.) Garden and Forest. 509 closely set and stiff. With the numerous dead spines andstubs they promise sure destruction to the clothes of any onerash enough to try to climb them. The most westerly upland growth of this tree is foundcovering the hills north of the Kansas River in southernPottawattomie County. It crosses the Blue and is found in the Black Oak more nearly resembles the Black Jack in therough checked appearance of its black bark. It is a largerand better formed tree, and the thinner, deeply lobed leaveswill at once distinguish it. The Red Oak is by far the finer tree, and the iron-gray colorand smoother appearance of the trunk, the lofty habit and
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Fig- 79-—Senecio Heritieri.—See page 510. considerable numbers along the deeply cut ravines whichenter this stream from the west, but this is the limit. I havefound no trace of it on the Kansas or any of its tributariesabove the mouth of the Blue. The Black Jack affords a fairarticle of fuel, but is of little value for mechanical purposes. Closely associated with this species in distribution are theBlack Oak (Q. tinctoria) and the Red Oak (Q. rubra). Of these fine open top, as well as the large acorns with flat shallowcups, and the slightly lobed leaves, readily distinguish it fromthe others. These three members of the Black Oak family allfind their western limit along the west bank of the Blue Riverin Riley County. Another member of the Oak family is worthy of mention asoccupying about the same limits as the above-named Oaks. 5io Garden and Forest. (Number 192. The Ostrya Virginica is found along the Blue and the Kansasand its tributaries to a few miles west of Manhattan. It occu

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