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Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-
Subjects: Shrubs Trees
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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more or less obovate leaves. They are deciduous, with large, flat, alternate, \*W^P^ ^^ parallel-ribbed leaves. Flowers unisexual; the ^^Fj;r^^^^id^ males crowded and numerous on slender-stalked, Vi?^<^.*tff~ globose heads; each flower consisting of a four- to six-lobed calyx, surrounding a cluster of eightto twelve stamens. Female flowers two or threein a cluster; the fruit a triangular nut with sharpedges, two nuts being entirely or partially en-closed in a four-lobed, woody husk (involucre). All the beeches are quite hardy and thrivein a loamy soil, especially if situated on a lime-stone foundation. They should be increasedby seeds, but the varieties distinguished bycoloured foliage or by peculiarities of growth have to be grafted in spring. F. lERRUGINKA, Azton. AMERICAN BEECH. (F. americana, Sweety A deciduous tree, 70 to 80 ft. high, occasionally more, with a thin, smooth,grey bark ; spreading by means of root suckers, so that one tree will form of <vj5^ Fabiama imbricata.
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Weeping Beech, Fuf^n syivatica var. />*«</«/</. I) (Fuct p. &A0 FAGUS sni itself a colony of stems ; young- shoots at first clothed with long hairs, whichsoon fall away. Leaves ovate or oval, 2 to 5 ins. long, -:l to ih ins. wide, taper-pointed, usually wedge-shaped at the base, coarsely toothed, at first clothedwith silky hairs, but soon dark green and quite smooth above except along themidrib ; paler below, and with tufts of hairs in the vein-axils and along themidrib ; stalk ) in. or rather more long ; veins usually eleven to fifteen pairs.Fruits about ; in. long ; the three-angled nuts enclosed by a downy, pricklyhusk, the prickles much recurved. Native of Eastern N. America ; introduced in 1766. The American beech,like so many other trees of its region, has never been much of a success inBritain. It is easily distinguished from F. sylvatica by the suckering habit,the narrower, more pointed, regularly toothed leaves, with more numerous veins. F. JAPONICA, Maximowicz

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