Trees of Kentucky 



B. HEMLOCKS GENUS TSUGA. 



The only conifer that bears 

 its leaves on steins or petioles. 

 Kentucky has one native spe- 

 cies : 



Canadian Hemlock T s u g a 

 canadensis, 



The Hemlock is common 

 throughout the mountains, 

 along streams, and high up 

 their steep, rocky banks. 

 Commercially, the wood is 

 used as second-grade building 

 material, and the bark contains 

 tannic acid in paying quanti- 

 ties. Grown in the open, the Hemlock is a great favorite as 

 an ornamental tree. 



Tree tall, pyramidal, with graceful branches, heavy with- 



foliage. 

 Bark furrowed into flat, confluent plates with gray-brown 



scales. 



Leaves stalked, short, flat. 

 Fruit cones, small, pendent, annual : cone-scales, thin. 



