Handbook of the Trees of New England

by Lorin Low Dame; Henry M. Brooks

Fruit.—Early September. A small, smooth nut, enclosed in the distended bract; the aggregated fruit resembling a cluster of hops.

Horticultural Value.—Hardy throughout New England; prefers dry or well-drained slopes in gravelly or rocky soil; graceful and attractive, but of rather slow growth; useful in shady situations and worthy of a place in ornamental plantations, but too small for street use. Seldom raised by nurserymen; collected plants moved with difficulty. Propagated from seed.

Plate XXVIII.—Ostrya Virginica.

1. Winter buds.

2. Flowering branch.

3. Sterile flower, back view.

4. Sterile flower, front view.

5. Fertile catkin.

6. Fertile flower.

7. Fruiting branch.

Carpinus Caroliniana, Walt.

Hornbeam. Blue Beech. Ironwood. Water Beech.

Habitat and Range.—Low, wet woods, and margins of swamps.