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INDUSTRIAL PLANTS 



count of its great durability and ease of splitting, especially 

 serviceable for fence rails and posts, poles, railway-ties, and 

 cooperage; and it is strong enough to be of considerable use 



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Fro. 243. — English Oak (yi/rrcits pedunrnhiln . Hcocli Family, Fagacew). 

 1, flowering branch, li, fruiting branch, -i, part of staminatr flower- 

 fluster. 4, anthers. 5, anther, eut across. 0, pistillate flower. 7, same, 

 cut vertically. 8, winter twig. (Willkoinni.) — Tree growing 36 m. 

 tall; bark grayish-brown or blackish, di'cply furrowed; leaves dark 

 green above, i)ale beneath; flowers greenish yellow; fruit brownish. 

 Native home, Eurasia and Northern .\frica. 



