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AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



extends from the shores of Lake Erie in Canada, south through New 

 York and Pennsylvania, along the Alleghany mountains to Alabama; 

 west to Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, Kansas, Louisiana, and eastern 

 Texas. It needs moist soil for good growth and the best types are 

 found in the lower Ohio basin. In height this tree rarely exceeds 

 thirty feet and it is bushy, having short rigid limbs. The leaves are 

 rounded and sharply toothed, the blossoms generally white and very 

 fragrant; the fruit small, dry, yellow, tinged with red. The wood is 

 heavy, not strong, heart light red, sapwood yellow. It is used for tool 

 handles, small turned articles, and for carving and engraving. 



OREGON CRABAPPLE (Mains rivularis) grows wild from the 

 Aleutian Islands, Alaska, southward to central California, and is of 

 largest size in Washington and Oregon where trees are occasionally 

 forty feet high and eighteen inches in diameter, but they are generally 

 about ten feet high and form dense thickets. The fruit is oblong, ripens 

 late in autumn, is greenish, or reddish, or clear lemon yellow in color, 

 and rather pleasant to the taste. The tree grows slowly, the wood is 

 hard, and light reddish-brown in color, and is suitable for tool handles. 



IOWA CRAB (Mains ioensis) grows from Minnesota to Texas and is 

 the common crabapple of the Mississippi basin. Large trees are twenty- 

 five feet high and a foot in diameter. It is believed that this tree crosses 

 with the common apple, and produces a variety known as the soulard 

 apple (Mains soulardi). Wild apple (Malus mains) is a European 

 species introduced into this country and now running wild. 



MOUNTAIN ASH (Pyrus americana) is closely related to the crabs. It occurs 

 from Newfoundland to Manitoba, and southward along the mountains to North 

 Carolina. Trees have compound leaves, red berries the size of small cherries, and 

 reach a height of thirty feet and a diameter of a foot or more. There are several forms 

 or varieties, among them the small fruit mountain ash (Pyrus americana microcarpd) 

 of the Alleghany mountains. 



