22o TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. 



low tint, and the kernel, although sweet, has a less agreeable 

 flavour. Hicoria laciniosa is slow of growth, and the wood that 

 it produces is comparatively dark in colour. Otherwise there 

 is much similarity between it and that of Hicoria ovata. 



SMALL-FRUITED HICKORY. {Plate CXVIII.) 

 Hicoria microcdrpa. 



Bark: at first close, but separating into narrow strips. Leaves: compound 

 alternate ; with smooth stalks and from five to seven sessile leaflets ; long ; 

 oval ; pointed at the apex and at the base ; finely serrate ; glabrous above and 

 only slightly pubescent in the angles of the ribs underneath and dotted with 

 dark spots. Fruit : growing in a nearly globular, green, thin husk which 

 splits when ripe nearly to the base. Nut ; small ; round; smooth ; not ridged ; 

 thin-shelled. Kernel: sweet. 



It is not always a simple matter to tell at a glance the differ- 

 ent hickories apart, for in general habit and picturesqueness 

 of outline they closely resemble each other. The foliage of 

 Hicoria microcarpa suggests that of Hicoria glabra ', the pig- 

 nut, and the shell of its small fruit is also thin and free 

 from angles. In fact, Professor Sargent regards the tree as a 

 variety of Hicoria glabra. 



About the leaf-buds of the hickories there is always a charm. 

 Many of them grow to the size of quite large leaves before fall- 

 ing and are full of colour. Usually the pistillate blossoms are 

 green, and so unobtrusive and modest are they that they might 

 readily be mistaken for the unfolding foliage. The wood of 

 the small-fruited hickory is light brown, tough and strong. 



WHITE ASH. (Plate CXIX.) 

 Fraxinus Americana. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Olive. Rounded; lower branches, 40-120 feet. Nova Scotia west- April-June, 



slightly drooping. ward and south' 



ward to Florida 

 and Texas. 



Lower bark: brownish grey, tinged with red ; furrowed, and becoming smoother 

 upward and on the branches. Young shoots glossy, and marked with light 

 coloured dots. Leaf-buds ; rust coloured ; glabrous and growing in elongated 



