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. 1921 Excerpt: ...and C. Uses--Many of the cultivated garden cherries have been derived from this species. Ornamental varieties, including double-flowered forms, may be purchased from nurserymen. Wood heavy, rather soft, brittle, closegrained. Used abroad for the manufacture of furniture, musical instruments and in turnery. LEGUMINOSAE ...
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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. 1921 Excerpt: ...and C. Uses--Many of the cultivated garden cherries have been derived from this species. Ornamental varieties, including double-flowered forms, may be purchased from nurserymen. Wood heavy, rather soft, brittle, closegrained. Used abroad for the manufacture of furniture, musical instruments and in turnery. LEGUMINOSAE Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch Gymnocladus canadensis Lam. Kentucky Coffee Tree Habit--A large tree, under favorable conditions sometimes attaining a height of 100 feet with a trunk diameter of 2-4 feet, generally much smaller in central and western New York. Trunk usually short, dividing up ten or fifteen feet above the ground into several stout, ascending limbs to form a narrow, obovate crown. Under forest conditions the bole may be columnar and free of branches for 70-80 feet. Leaves--Alternate, bipinnate, 1-3 feet long, l%-2 feet broad, with 7-13 pinnae and 1-2 basal pairs of lobed leaflets, borne on glabrous, terete, purplish green leaf-stalks which are prominently enlarged at the base. Pinnae consisting of 6-15 leaflets borne subopposite or alternate on the secondary rachis. Leaflets ovate to oval, taper-pointed at the apex, rounded and inequilateral at the base, entire, at maturity dark green and lustrous above, paler beneath, short-stalked, 1-2% inches long, falling separately in the autumn. Flowers--Appearing in June after the leaves, regular, greenish white, polygamous, borne in terminal racemes or panicles. Staminate inflorescence 3-4 inches long, the lower branches usually several-flowered. Pistillate inflorescence 10-12 inches long, the flowers fewer and longerstalked than in the staminate clusters. Calyx about 2/3 of an inch long, narrowly tubular, white-tomentose, 10-ribbed and 5-lobed, the lobes linearlanceolate. Petals oblong...
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VG. Volume xxi, no. 5, technical publication no. 15 of the new york state college of forestry at syracuse university. some spotting to clothboards, owner's name.
