4 6 Trees with Simple Leaves. [An 



wheel-hubs, and is now largely exported* to England to 

 be used in boat- and ship-building. 



One day I found four men in a stone quarry, working 

 with iron bars and rollers over a heavy flat slab. They 

 were moving the stone slowly up a narrow plank into 

 their cart. "John," I said, " I would not think that board 

 could hold a stone of such weight two minutes. Is it 

 hickory?" " No sir," said John, "that 's an elm plank; 

 it can't break." It did not break. 



It was one of the woods which the Deacon used in 

 building his famous " one-hoss shay" : 



" So the deacon inquired of the village folk 

 Where he could find the strongest oak, 

 That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, 

 That was for spokes and floor and sills ; 

 He sent for lancewood to make the thills ; 

 The cross-bar's were ash, from the straightest trees ; 

 The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, 

 But lasts like iron for things like these ; 

 The hubs of logs from the ' Settler's Ellum,' 

 Last of its timber, they could n't sell 'em, 

 Never an axe had seen their chips, 

 And the wedges flew from between their lips, 

 Their. blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; " 



OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 



Corky White Elm. U. racembsa, Thomas. 

 In foliage and shape and in the qualities of its timber 

 this tree very closely resembles the white elm. A very 

 noticeable difference is in its branches, which are often 

 marked lengthwise with many large, corky, almost winged 

 ridges. Its seeds resemble but are rather larger than 

 those of the white elm. 



Found, from Southwestern Vermont through Western 

 New York and Southern Michigan to Northeastern 

 Iowa, and southward through Ohio to Central Ken- 

 tucky. Its finest growth is in Southern Michigan. 



