40 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



prise to many of us, wlio possibly have never seen a 

 specimen which exceeded 40 feet. I have frequent- 



sassafras. 



]y found sassafras in the vicinity of Lake Mahopac, 

 Putnam County, N. Y., 10 or 15 feet high, and oc- 

 casionally in New Jersey, perhaps 25 feet high ; in 

 the South, however, it commonly grows to a height 



but in Silva of North America Prof. Sargent places the maximum 

 height at 90 feet. 



