Tree Life 



The amentaceous group admits of a natural and very 

 evident twofold division, according as the ripened 

 fruit is a nut or a seed (or seed-like) — one of those con- 

 venient distinctions that science deigns to make use of, 

 though the difference is apparent rather than real, a nut 

 being only a large, meaty seed, and a seed being essen- 

 tially a diminutive nut. Moreover, the species of each 

 division exhibit in common a very distinctive tree-type, 

 for in the nut-fruited group are our finest forest-growths ; 

 these are our great lumber-trees, for the most part tough- 

 fibred, often coarse-grained, utilitarian, like chestnut, 

 hickory, and oak ; whereas in the seed-fruited group are 

 the more delicate and graceful sorts — willows, poplars, 

 birches. 



The following are our 



NUT-FRUITED AMENTACEOUS TREES 



Shagbark Hickory Scarlet Oak 



Black Hickory Red Oak 



Western Shagbark Hickory Black Oak 



Small-fruited Hickory Barren Oak 



Pignut (Hickory) Spanish Oak 



Bittemut (Hickory) Pin Oak 



Pecan Hickory Post Oak 



Butternut Bur Oak 



Black Walnut Willow Oak 



Chestnut Water Oak 



Beech Shingle Oak 



White Oak Live Oak 



Swamp White Oak Upland Willow Oak 



Chestnut Oak Chinquapin 

 Yellow Chestnut Oak 



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