October 10, lOlS 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



THE WONDER CITY OF HARDWOGfi^RODUCTlONP^ 



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Hackberry Lumber 



Most of the hackberry lumber comes from the south- 

 ern states, notably the lower Mississippi valley, where 

 this tree attains its best development and reaches its 

 largest size. But the tree grows all over the United 

 States. It is the most widely distributed tree of this 

 country or perhaps of the whole world. In some regions 

 one tree may be found with not another within a hundred 

 miles; in other regions it is plentiful. 



It is a member of the elm family and is first cousin 

 to the elm of which lumber is made. The form of the 

 tree suggests its relationship to the elm; and it seems a 

 little more like cork elm in appearance than like any of 

 the others. The excrescences on the bark of some of 

 the trees resemble those on cork or rock elm. 



There are two species of hackberry, but they are so 

 nearly alike that lumbermen make no distinction in the 

 lumber, and few persons know the trees apart. One is 

 known as hackberry and the other as sugarberry. The 

 latter is more restricted in its range than the former and 

 is most abundant in Texas and eastward across the lower 

 valley of the Mississippi. The two species of hackberry 

 may be easily distinguished when the fruit is ripe, as 

 they differ in color. The true hackberry's fruit is blue, 

 the sugarberry's orange-red. Persons who bear these 

 differences in mind need never mistake one tree for the 

 other during the fruit season. Differences in leaves are 

 so slight that only a botanist can point them out. 



(To be co,iti,nicd) 



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