When we moved here, there was a single Oldfield birch tree canted at an improbable angle by the driveway. Ash-colored and striated with charcoal, it glowed in the evening light like a slim Leaning ...
FOUND IN THE MOUNTAINOUS regions of the Mid-Atlantic states and broadly across the Northeast and New England, sweet birch (Betula lenta) grows to about 60 feet in height, with a single straight trunk ...
- common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture ...