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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



Weight Specific 



cu. ft. Gravity. 



White Ash (Praxinus Americana) 44.50 .712 



White Oak (Quercus alba) 44.85 .718 



Chestnut Oak (Quercus prinus) 44.86 .718 



Burr Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) 46.29 .741 



Sweet Birch (Betula lenta) 46.57 .745 



Persimmon (Diospyrus Virginiana) 46.58 .746 



Ironwood (Ostrya Virginiana) 46.92 .751 



Juneberry (Amenanchier Canadensis) 47.48 .760 



Wild Crab (Malus coronaria) 47.66 .763 



Mockernut (Hicoria alba) 48.73 .780 



Shagbark Hickory (Hickoria ovata) 49.14 .787 



Pignut (Hicoria glabra) 51.56 .825 



Yellow Oak (Quercus acuminata) 55.72 .892 





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THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE 

 COLORADO DESERT 



A MONG the natural curiosities of our Southwest is an 

 isolated group of twelve California Fan Palms growing 

 in the open Colorado Desert of southeastern California, and 

 shown in the accompanying photograph. They are locally 

 known as "The Twelve Apostles/' the appropriateness of which 

 title is at once acknowledged by the traveler when he notices 

 that one of the trees is blasted and its head entirely gone — the 

 obvious Judas of the band. — C. F. Saunders. 



