Pennsylvania Trees (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... tops, bat does not love limestone or extremely wet Soil.' in the North it is common on glacial drift but in the South it remains close to mountains and reaches its best development in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. iMPORTANCE OF THE SPECiES--This species, which reproduces itself best by sprout, but also by seed and seedling, is one of the most important commercial species in this State. it hac. shown itself to be the surest of all our trees to reproduce a stand fully from sprout. it growt; fast and is usel for many purposes in small as well as large sizes, and thus can be managed in short rotation, which insures a certain profit on the investment. A Chestnut forest managed for the purpose of producing telegraph poles should be run on rotations of about 55 years. On p'ior soil it may be necessary to increase the length of the rotation. Good tendance reduces the length of the rotation while the absence of it will not ouly increase the length but also result in an inferior grade of wood. The great variety of uses to which the wcod of this species is put will drain the existing forest to an enormous extent. There la urgent need to reproduce, develop, and improve our existing stands and also to guard against such destructive organic enemies Hs the Chestnut Bark Disease (Endothla gyrosa var. parasitica) commouly known as the Chestnut Blight. PLATE LlH. CHESTNUT. 1. i'nuK-li with stnminate ami pistillate flowers and mature leaves, 2. A etaminate flower, eularged. 3. A pistillate flower, eularged. 1 A ltranch with a cluster uf dosed and open hurs, x J. 5. A nut, x J. 6. A winter branch, x J. 7. A section of winter hrnnch. eularged CHlNQUAPlN. Castanea pumila, (Linnaeus) Miller. FORM--A small tree or shrub usually sttaining a height of 20 30 ft., but...