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Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them · Wilbur R. Mattoon — chapter 33 of 34 · ~439 words · public domain

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W Wafer-ash 93 Wahoo, eastern 125 Walnut, black 28 Walnut, little 28 Walnut, Texas 28 Waterlocust 90 Wild china-tree 102 Wild olive, Texas 128 Wild peach 83 Willow, black 37 Willow, desert 119 Winterberry 97 Winterberry euonymus 129 Witch-hazel 75

Y Yara 128 Yaupon 97

Z Zanthoxylum clava-herculis 92

PARTIAL LIST OF TREES RECOMMENDED FOR SHADE AND WINDBREAKS

East Texas

American elm arborvitae Arizona cypress basswood black locust black walnut bur oak catalpa Chinese tallow green ash hackberry holly live oak loblolly pine longleaf pine magnolia pecan red oak shortleaf pine silver maple slash pine sweetgum sycamore water oak white ash willow oak

Coastal Prairie

American elm arborvitae Arizona ash Arizona cypress athel Carolina poplar Chinese tallow Gulf Coast cedar hackberry holly Italian cypress live oak loblolly pine pecan swamp ash sweetgum sycamore

Central Texas

Arizona cypress American elm Texas walnut cedar elm Chinese arborvitae Chinese elm eastern redcedar green ash hackberry live oak pecan sycamore thornless honeylocust

South Texas

anaqua Arizona cypress athel Australian pine Carolina poplar Chinese arborvitae Chinese tallow eucalyptus fan palm Gulf Coast cedar gum elastic hackberry Italian cypress Japanese varnish tree live oak ornamental date palm pecan pistacia Rio Grande ash sycamore

West Texas

Arizona ash Arizona cypress aspen popple Austrian pine Chinese arborvitae Chinese elm green ash hackberry live oak mountain cottonwood pistacia redcedar Rocky mountain juniper Russian mulberry Russian olive silver poplar Spanish oak thornless honeylocust western yellow pine

Panhandle

American elm apricot Arizona cypress Austrian pine black locust Carolina poplar Chinese arborvitae Chinese maple Chinese elm Colorado blue spruce green ash hackberry loblolly pine pistacia redcedar red mulberry Russian mulberry Russian olive sand plum shortleaf pine Siberian elm silver poplar sycamore thornless honeylocust western yellow pine

CODE OF BEHAVIOR WITH OUTDOOR FIREBRANDS

1. Burn household trash only in a metal or cinder block container on an area cleared to bare soil.

2. Burn fields and brush piles only in the late afternoon when the wind is low and after a 5-foot fire-break has been plowed around the field.

3. Break matches and crush smokes before discarding.

4. Use car ash tray for smokes and used matches when traveling in a vehicle. Don’t pitch them out the window.

5. Clear the area around a warming or camp fire before lighting it.

6. Extinguish all warming and camp fires when you leave. Be sure all fires are Dead Out.

Transcriber’s Notes

--Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.

--Corrected a few palpable typos.

--In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by underscores.

--Included a transcription of the text within some images.

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