Crossword-Solution: BETULA 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

MacNab,[39] seedlings from a magnificent weeping birch (_Betula alba_), in the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, grew for the first ten or fifteen years upright, but then all became weepers like their parent.

Dawson, in the forests of Nova Scotia, where the Canoe Birch (_Betula papyracea_) has such tough bark that it may sometimes be seen in the swamps looking externally sound and fresh, although consisting simply of a hollow cylinder with all the wood decayed and gone.

The sugar orchards, as they are called, contain also many young maples too small for tapping, and numerous other trees--two of which, at least, the black birch, Betula lenta, and yellow birch, Betula excelsa, both very common in the same climate, are far more abundant in sap than the maple [Footnote: The correspondent already referred to informs me that a black birch, tapped about noon with two incisions, was found the next morning to have yielded sixteen gallons.

Other trees, such as the white birch (Betula alba), characterise the lower part of the bogs, and disappear from the higher; while others again, like the aspen (Populus tremula), occur at all levels, and still flourish in Denmark.

The red hue is far more common in leaves, as seen among herbs, in cultivated varieties of _Coleus_ and in the brown leaved form of the ordinary white clover, among trees and shrubs in the hazelnut (_Corylus_), the beech (_Fagus_), the birch (_Betula_), the barberry (_Berberis_) and many others.