Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-16
AND NOW-WHAT DO
YOU KNOW ABOUT
MINNESOTA TREES?
University Book, Soon to Appear,
''Tells ALP; Buffers and ROsen-
dahl Are the Authors.

Minneapolis, May 25.-How many
have ever seen a beech tree growing
wild in Minnesota?
How common is that well known
evergreen, the hemlock?
How many kinds of wild nuts may
be found in this state?
Such questions are more or less
incidental to the purposes of the new
and rewritten book on Minnesota trees
and shrubs, which has been prepared
by members of the Department of
Botany at the University of Mime
sofa and will be ready for distribution
in the late summer or fall. But they
represent one type of interesting in
formation it will bring to non-scien-
tific readers in the general public,
according to the May issue of Mime
sofa Chats.
The answers may not have been
written down in the book in so many
words by the authors, Professors F. K.
Buffers and G. O. Rosendahl, but
somewhere in the text and tables re-
plies to almost every conceivable
question regarding Minnesota vege-
table life of the woody-stemmed vari-
cites can be found. For this book
covers everything with woody stem
and root, ranging from the states
largest trees, white pine and cotton
wood, down to the wild rose, fragrant
wintergreen, and Stunned poison ivy.
knowledge accumulated during
lifetime of studying the plant life of
Minnesota together with reference to
all known works on the subject has
gone into the production of the new
book, which will be of especial value
to school and public libraries and
college and high school botany clas-
ses, as well as to all who take a
warm interest in the plant life, trees
forests, and forestry problems of Min
nesota.
Drs. Buffers and Rosendahl are al
so the botanists who co-operated to
produce the splendid chapter on Min
nesota plants and flowers that ap-
pears in the Guidebook to Highway
No. 1, published by the Minnesota
Geological Survey as Bulletin No. 20,
book which everyone interested in
the states natural attractions should
have in his library and everyone who
tours over the country traversed by
Highway No. 1 should carry.
According to DR.. Buffers there is no
authenticated instance of a beech
tree growing as native of the Mime
sofa forests. In Warren Upham's,
Flora of Minnesota, there is reference
to a mammoth beech which once grew
at the upper end of Grey Cloud Island,
in the Mississippi river below st.
Paul The tree is said to have been
worshipped by the Indians as some
thing magnificent and unusual. DR..
Buffers believes it barely possible
that this may actually have been a
beech, possibly sprung from a nut
dropped on the island by one of the
early. voyageurs. 1t hardly could have
been a result of natural planting.
Hemlock invades Minnesota at only
one point, in eastern Carlton county,
where it has passed over the state
line from the Wisconsin hemlock for
ests. otherwise the conifers of Min
nesota are the white, Norway, and
Jack pines, the black and white spru-
ces, the tamarack Ga larch), balsam
fir, white and red cedar, dwarf cedar,
juniper, and dwarf yew. Generally
speaking, this collection represents
all of the conifers of the northeastern