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Harry Marshall Ward. The Oak: A Popular Introduction to Forest-botany
The Oak: A Popular Introduction to Forest-botany
Table of Contents
Introduction
THE OAK
CHAPTER I
The Acorn and its Germination―the Seedling
CHAPTER II
The Seedling and Young Plant
CHAPTER III
The Seedling and Young Plant (continued). Its Shoot-system—Distribution of the Tissues
CHAPTER IV
The Seedling and Young Plant (continued). Structure of the Vascular Tissues, etc
CHAPTER V
The Seedling and Young Plant (continued). The Buds and Leaves
CHAPTER VI
The Tree—its Root-system
CHAPTER VII
The Tree—its Shoot-system
CHAPTER VIII
The Tree (continued). Inflorescence and Flowers—Fruit and Seed
CHAPTER IX
Oak Timber—its Structure and Technological Peculiarities
CHAPTER X
The Cultivation of the Oak, and the Diseases and Injuries to which it is subject
CHAPTER XI
Relationships of the Oaks—their Distribution in Space and Time
CHAPTER XII
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Harry Marshall Ward
Published by Good Press, 2021
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until a severe frost followed by a thaw brings them down. The buds, leaves, and flowers are all much attacked by gall-forming insects, many different kinds being found on one and the same tree.
It is not until the oak is from sixty to a hundred years old that good seeds are obtained from it. Oaks will bear acorns earlier than this, but they are apt to be barren. A curious fact is the tendency to produce large numbers of acorns in a given favorable autumn, and then to bear none, or very few, for three or four years or even longer. The twisted, "gnarled" character of old oaks is well known, and the remarkably crooked branches are very conspicuous in advanced age and in winter (Plate II). The bark is also very rugged in the case of ancient trees, the natural inequalities due to fissures, etc., being often supplemented by the formation of "burrs."
