Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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HONEY LOCUST. Gleditsia triacantlios L.^
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i Fig. 333. Piece of branch bearing leaves and fruit, the leaves being mostly asleep (i. e., withleaflets closed together, as they do at night), i ; portion of pod with side removed, 2; leaf withleaflets spreading apart as they do in day-time, 3 ; large branching thorn, 4 ; branchlet in winter, 5. 334. Trunk near St. Louis, Mo. 335- Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Trees of the !Northebn States and Canada 280 The Honey Locust attains the height of from75 to 140 ft. when fjrowing in tlie forests, andwhen isolated develops a broad rounded orlofty Hat-topped head with drooping lateralbranches and of very characteristic aspect. Itstrunk, commonly 2 or 3 ft. in diameter, excep-tionally 5 or 0 ft., is vested in a dark graybark witli closely appressed firm scales. Itusually bears a rigid sharp 1-3-pointed glossypurple-brown thorn above tlie axil of each leaf.and the trunk and bases of the large branchesoften bristle with very formidable branchingthorns, but trees are occasi

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