#bookauthor:Miller_Wilhelm_1869_

[charlottebartlett]

Image from page 464 of "Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together w by Internet Archive Book Images Via Flickr: Title: Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches Identifier: cyclopediaofam03bail Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954; Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- Subjects: Gardening Publisher: New York [etc. ] The Macmillan company Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: nops QUERCUS erect catkins with 4-7-parte(l calyx and 4-12, usually 6, stamens; pistillate in 1-many-fld. spikes in the axils of the young Ivs., rarely at the base of the axillary stami- nate catkins, each flower consisting of an incompletely 3-celled ovary, surrounded by imbricate bracts: fr. a 1-seeded subglobose to oblong nut, surrounded at the base or sometimes al- most inclosed by a cup-like involucre. The numerous species have been divided â II American spe- clong to the sub- . l.M'i'l'iSi.il.ui I- '.'â /,....< is Greek for '! . !. !, , 1. rized by slender, : I :ii-». separate axil- |.i-I ill I'. -|i;. (leiixiflorn belongs to Pasania, li has erect staminate catkins, some bear- lislillate lis. at their base, like the catkins 'astanea. Oyclobalanus and Cyclobala- is have the scales of the cup connate into putric rings; the intiorescence of the tirst bein? similar to that of Pasania, of the second to L.Mii.l.ilialaiiiis. Chlamydobalanus is much lik.- I ., ,,i, iiinii-. but the nut is wholly in- clii ; lie cup. Of Lithocarpus, Witt, I I ,1 1, .Mjnnate with the cup, but oihrr .; i 111., Ill, last iiaini'd subgenus, no sp,-c_-i.-s is in I'ullivaii.ii. Ih,' ,:(k-.of the subgenus Lepidobalni i, !: ilid into two sections, â Leu,,, h ^[(â Ianoba- lanus. In the fonin r. hiiii-iiil' ihf- White Oak tribe, the aconi> niauni- lin- lirst year (Fig. 2039). In the latter, comprising the Black Oaks, the acorns mature the second year (Fig. 2040). Besides the 300 species, about 40 hybrids have been recorded. The latest monograph of the whole genus is by A. De('and..llf in Proilromus, vol. 16, 2, pp. 1-10,S (18t;4-180.S). Important illustrated works i.-aii I )alis an- A. .Michaux. "Histoire des Chenes de I'Ain, I "ii, 1-"1 I. with 36 plates; Kellogg and Greene, â¢11 I W.st American Oaks" (1889), with 37 l.lr -.,' , ^ilva of North America," vol. 8 (1895), Willi -J ; I ,1, - .11,1 Liebmann, "Chenes de I'Amerique iropii-ali- I li^uiii, with 47 plates. Most of the European and west Asian Oaks are figured in Kotsehy, Eichen Kuropas und des Orients (1862), with 40 colored plates. 1477 wagons, tools and many other articles. The bark of some species, in America that of Q. rchitiiia, Priniis and densiflora, is used for tanning leather. Cork is obtained from the bark of Q. Siiber and ficrirJeiilalin in Text Appearing After Image: 2041. Leaves and acorns of \ arious Oalts Phellos; S, Q. alba: S. Q. velutina: 4. Q nibra o Q Pn G, Q. macrocarpa; 7, Q. bicolnr. I Amer- Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.