limp-bound

Updated: June 7, 2025

The red oak, the black oak, the scarlet oak, all splendid forest trees of the Northeast, are in the group of confusion that can be readily separated only by the timber-cruiser, who knows every tree in the forest for its economic value, or by the botanist, with his limp-bound Gray's Manual in hand.

J. Horace (John Horace) McFarland - Getting Acquainted with the Trees