STUDIES OF TREES IN WINTER
SWAMP WHITE OAK
Quercus platanoides
STUDIES of TREES
IN WINTER
A Description of the Deciduous Trees of
Northeastern America
BY
ANNIE OAKES HUNTINGTON
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
By CHARLES S. SARGENT, LL.D.
DIRECTOR OF THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM AND AUTHOR OF THE
“SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA”
ILLUSTRATED WITH COLORED PLATES BY MARY
S. MORSE, AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY
THE AUTHOR
BOSTON
KNIGHT AND MILLET
1902
Copyright, 1901
By Knight and Millet
First Impression, December, 1901
Second Impression, January, 1902
TO
My Two Friends
MY MOTHER, ELIZABETH QUINCY HUNTINGTON
AND
JEANNETTE WARREN PAYSON
IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE AND LOVE
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| Introduction | [xv] | |
| Chapter | ||
| I. | The Study of Trees in Winter | [3] |
| Trunk and branches. Stems and twigs. Leaf-scars. Bundle-scars. Buds. | ||
| II. | The Horsechestnut | [15] |
| The Horsechestnut. The Ohio Buckeye. | ||
| III. | The Maples | [21] |
| Sugar or Rock Maple. Red or Swamp Maple. White or Silver Maple. Striped Maple or Moosewood. Ash-leaved Maple or Box Elder. Norway Maple. Sycamore Maple. | ||
| IV. | The Ashes | [35] |
| The White or American Ash. Red or Downy Ash. Black Ash. European Ash. | ||
| V. | The Walnuts and Hickories | [45] |
| Butternut. Black Walnut. Shagbark or Shellbark Hickory. Mockernut or Whiteheart Hickory. Bitternut Hickory. Pignut Hickory. | ||
| VI. | The Birches, Hop Hornbeam, and Hornbeam | [59] |
| Canoe, Paper, or White Birch. American, Gray, or White Birch. Black or Sweet Birch. Yellow Birch. Red or River Birch. Dwarf Birch. European White Birch. Hop Hornbeam, Ironwood. Hornbeam, Blue Beech. | ||
| VII. | The Beech, Chestnut, and Oaks | [77] |
| American Beech. European Beech. Chestnut Oak. White Oak. Swamp White Oak. Mossy-cup, Overcup, or Bur Oak. Chestnut or Rock Chestnut Oak. Dwarf Chestnut Oak. Post or Rough Oak. Black Oak. Red Oak. Pin Oak. Scrub Oak. | ||
| VIII. | The Elms and the Hackberry | [101] |
| American or White Elm. Slippery or Red Elm. Cork or Rock Elm. English Elm. Scotch, Dutch, or Wych Elm. Hackberry, Sugarberry, Nettle tree. | ||
| IX. | The Buttonwood, the Tupelo, and the Mulberries | [117] |
| Buttonwood, Sycamore, or Plane tree. Tupelo, Pepperidge, Sour Gum tree. Flowering Cornel, Flowering Dogwood. Red Mulberry. White Mulberry. | ||
| X. | The Locusts, the Yellowwood, and the Kentucky Coffee tree | [129] |
| Common Locust. Honey Locust. Yellowwood. Kentucky Coffee tree. Laburnum. Judas tree. | ||
| XI. | The Lindens, the Liquidamber, and the Sassafras | [141] |
| Linden, Basswood. European Linden. Liquidamber, Sweet Gum. Hamamelis. Sassafras. | ||
| XII. | The Magnolia And Tulip tree, the Catalpa, the Ailanthus, and the Aralia | [153] |
| Swamp Magnolia, Sweet Bay. Umbrella tree. Cucumber tree. Tulip tree. Catalpa. Ailanthus, Tree of Heaven. Angelica tree, Hercules’ Club. | ||
| XIII. | The Apple tree, Pear tree, Mountain Ash, Cherry Tree, and the Shad Bush | [167] |
| Common Apple tree. Common Pear tree. Mountain Ash, or Rowan tree. Wild Black Cherry. Choke Cherry. Pin Cherry. Peach tree. Shad Bush. Service Berry, June Berry. | ||
| XIV. | The Willows and Poplars | [177] |
| White Willow. Weeping Willow. Black Willow. Aspen, American Aspen. Large-toothed Aspen. Balm of Gilead, Balsam Poplar. Cottonwood, Necklace, or Carolina Poplar. Lombardy Poplar. White Poplar. | ||
| XV. | The Larch | [187] |
| American Larch. Tamarack or Hackmatack. European Larch. | ||