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AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



Celtis mississippiensis reticulata, but without any English name except 

 sugarberry, is a tree forty or fifty feet high, covered with blue-gray 

 bark, very rough. It ranges from Dallas, Texas, to the Rio Grande and 

 westward into New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and into southern 

 California and Lower California. In eastern Texas it is found on dry 

 limestone hills, but westward only in mountain canyons in the vicinity of 

 water. In the southern part of Texas this tree is usually known as palo 

 bianco, but those who apply that name have no idea that it is a variety 

 of sugarberry but suppose it is a tree peculiar to their region. In 

 Cameron and Hidalgo counties, Texas, either because an extra good 

 quality grows there, or because some opinion exists in its favor, it is 

 liked for wagon material, and occasionally is turned for table legs and 

 other parts of furniture. It is quite common in that part of Texas as 

 an ornamental tree in yards and along streets of small towns. The white- 

 ness of the bark is the most striking feature. 



