Handbook of the Trees of New England

By Lorin L. Dame, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1822-1898 Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

Habitat and Range.-In fertile soils; moist woodlands or dry uplands.Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, through Quebec and Ontario, to Lake Winnipeg.New England, -common, from the vicinity of the seacoast to altitudes of 2500 feet, forming extensive forests.South along the mountains to Georgia, ascending to 2500 feet in the Adirondacks and to 4300 in North Carolina; west to Minnesota and Iowa.Habit.-The tallest tree and the stateliest conifer of the New England forest, ordinarily from 50 to 80 feet high and 2-4 feet in diameter at the ground, but in northern New England, where patches of the primeval forest still remain, attaining a diameter of 3-7 feet and a height ranging from 100 to 150 feet, rising in sombre majesty far above its deciduous neighbors; trunk straight, tapering very gradually; branches nearly horizontal, wide-spreading

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086PMZXCJ
• ISBN13: 9798633366679
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"