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3o6 Woodcraft Manual for Boys Sassafras, or Ague Tree (Sassafras sassafras) Usually a small tree of dry sandy soil, but reaching 125 feet high in favorable regions. Its wood is dull orange, soft, weak, coarse, brittle, and light. A cubic foot weighs 31 lbs. Very durable next the ground. Leaves 4 to 7 indies long. Maine to Iowa and Texas to Atlantic See next page. Sweet Gum, Star-leaved, or Red Gunii Bilsted, Alligator Tree, or Liquidambar {Liquidantbar styraciflua) A tall tree up to 150 feet high of low, moist woods, remark- able for the corky ridges on its bark, and the unsplitable nature of its weak, warping, perishable timber. Heart-wood reddish brown, sap white; heavy, weighing 37 lbs. to cubic foot. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long. Massachusetts to Missouri and south to Gulf. Sycamore, Plane Tree, Buttonball, or Buttonwood (Platanm occidetUalis) One of the largest of our trees; up to 140 feet high; commonly hollow. Wood light brownish, weak; hard to split; heavy for