Studies of Trees in Winter
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Studies of Trees in Winter is by Annie Oakes Huntington. A chapter called The Horsechestnut describes the family Hippocastanaceæ as a small family consisting of one well-known cultivated species, the horsechestnut, and four belonging to the Western and Southern States, the various large and small buckeyes. The text says the horsechestnut is so well known and its winter characteristics so clearly marked that the writer has chosen it first for description.
The text says the red maple is a tree closely associated with Thoreau, and that Thoreau spent much time in extracting sugar from its sap. The text says the Latin name, Acer rubrum, red maple, came from the Celtic word rub, signifying red. The text says the generic name, Celtis, is the ancient Greek name for the lotus berry, and the specific name, occidentalis (belonging to the west), designates its American origin. The text says the color of the branchlets and the form and size of the winter buds generally afford certain means of determining closely related trees.
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- Annie Oakes Huntington
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