How To Know The
How To Know The Trees Best Time To Begin To Study The Trees Is To-day! The Place To Begin Is Right Where You Are, Provided There Is A Tree Near Enough, For A Lesson About Trees Will Be Very Dull Unless There Is A Tree To Look At, To Ask ...
Leaves Of All Shapes_p1
Leaves Of All Shapes And Sizes The Leaf Of The Tree Is Its Visiting Card. We Shall Learn To Know Trees By Their Leaves, As Easily As If The Name Were Written Across The Face Of The Leaf. Some Leaves Have A Single Blade Of Green, And For This Reason ...
Leaves Of All Shapes_p2
How Shall We Tell A Leaf Stem From A Twig? Leaf Stems Do Not Look Like The Twigs Of The Tree. A Little Practice In Looking Closely And Comparing These Leaf Stems And Twigs Will Ob Viate Any Confusion Of The Two. The Leaf Has A Bud At Its Base, ...
The American Elm And
The American Elm And Its Kin Beautiful And Stately, Yet Full Of Grace Is The Form Of A Big Elm Tree Against The Grey Sky Of A Cloudy Winter Day. The Tall Trunk Is Crowned With Many Main Branches, Which Spread Into A Widening Funnel Shape, Subdividing Into Numberless Smaller ...
The Ash Family_p1
The Ash Family The Trees Whose Leaves Are Set Opposite Upon The Twigs Are Few In The American Woods Compared With Those Whose Leaves Alternate. The Maples Have The Opposite Arrangement Of Leaves; So Have The Dogwoods. These Trees Have Simple Leaves. The Horse Chestnuts And Buckeyes Have Their Leaves ...
The Ash Family_p2
The Blue Ash Is Common On The Rich River Lands Along The Principal Tributaries Of The Mis Sissippi. Some Of The Finest Specimens Grow On The Limestone Hills Of The Smoky Mountains. It Is A Tall, Graceful, Grey-stemmed Ash. We Shall Know It Anywhere As An Ash Tree By Its ...
The Autumn Berries In_p1
The Autumn Berries In The Woods In The Roadside Thickets, As The Summer Wanes, The Berry Clusters Of The Shrubby Vi Burnums Turn Red, And Soften, And In September Change To A Vivid, Or A Dark Blue. They Are Very Pretty On Their Coral Red Stems, And Look Like Little ...
The Autumn Berries In_p2
Bad As Its Reputation Is, According To The Tra Dition That Its Fruit Had Power To Rob Men Of Their Patriotism, Yet This Is One Of The Most Use Ful Little Trees. It Grows Easily, And Is Con Tented On Land That Is Worthless For Other Pur Poses. Besides The ...
The Autumn Berries In_p3
The Persimmon Tree Is Tall, With A Handsome Round Head, And Zig-zag, Twisted Branches. It Grows From Rhode Island West To Kansas And South To Florida And Texas. It Is Found Scat Tered In Mixed Woods, And Comes Up In Fence Rows And In Abandoned Fields Wherever The Seeds Have ...
The Awakening Of The
The Awakening Of The Trees Winter The Grey Beech Trunks Look Almost White Among The Dark Trunks Of Neighbour Ing Trees. Their Branches Are Dark At The Tips, And The Buds Are Long, Slim, And Sharp-pointed. Silky, Brown Bud Scales, In Many Layers, Protect The Young Shoots Hidden In These ...
The Bald Cypress
The Bald Cypress Travellers In The South Pass Forests Of Dark Pines, And Along The Edges Of Swamps The Pines Often Give Way To Solid Stretches Of Trees With Pale Grey Trunks, And Lettuce Green Foliage, Whose Lightness Contrasts Strangely And Beautifully With The Solid Bank Of Dark Green That ...
The Beech
The Beech Least Of All The Nuts Good To Eat That Grow In Our Mixed Woods Is The Fruit Of The Grey-trunked Beeches. In Nutting Time The Beech Tree's Crown Of Green Is Almost As Clean And Bright As In Mid Summer. The Silky Leaves Are Little Torn By The ...
The Black Oak
The Black Oak The Black Oak, Which Gives Its Name To The Large Group Of Biennial-fruited Oaks, Is One Of Our Handsome, Sturdy Forest Trees. It Grows From Maine To Florida, And West To Minnesota, Kansas, And Eastern Texas. Its Bark Is. Very Dark Grey Or Brown, And Thick, With ...
The Black Walnut
The Black Walnut No Boy Or Girl Who Has Ever Gone Nutting " In Brown October's Woods " Can Forget The Fruits Of The Black Walnut Trees That Hang Like Green Oranges, High Up On The Ends Of The Branches, And Have To Be Climbed For And Shaken Down. And ...
The Buckeyes
The Buckeyes The Ohio Buckeye Is A Little Tree, But It Has Given Its Name To The Buckeye State. There Must Have Been Many Of Them In The Virgin Forest That The Ohio Pioneer Cut Down To Make Room For His Crops Of Corn And Grain. He Noticed These Trees ...
The Bur Or Mossy Cup
The Bur Or Mossy-cup Oak The Largest Acorn I Know Is The Fruit Of The Bur Oak, And It Is Borne In A Mossy Cup, Indeed. The Cup's Scales Are Drawn Out Into Long, Hairy Points, And Those Near The Rim Form A Loose Fringe. Once In A While You ...
The Burning Bush
The Burning Bush A Little Tree, Not At All Related To The Holly, But Truly A Cousin Of The Bitter-sweet, Has A Rather Surprising Name. In Summer It Looks Like A Wild Plum Tree, Except For Its Fluted, Ash-grey Bark. The Flowers Have Purple Petals, And Look Somewhat Like Potato ...
The Butternut
The Butternut The Butternut Trees Are Stripped Of Their Fruit In October By Boys Who Have Visions Of Long Evenings, Such As Whittier Describes In " Snow Bound," With Nuts And Apples And Cider, By A Roaring Fire. Some Boys Leave The Black Walnut Trees To Others, And Fill Their ...
The Changing Colour Of_p1
The Changing Colour Of The Autumn Woods All Through The Autumn, When The Wonderful Colours Come In The Forest Leaves, We Shall See The Green Of These Leaves Creeping Back Along The Veins. The Horse Chestnut Leaves Tell A Very Interesting Story. They Turn Brown First Upon The Edges. If ...
The Changing Colour Of_p2
Countries That Have A More Moist, Warm Climate Than Ours, Do Not Have The Vivid Autumn Colours That We Enjoy. England, And The Coun Tries Of Western Europe, Are Like Our West Coast In Lacking The Colour Changes That Make October For Us The Most Glorious Month Of The Year. ...
The Cherries
The Cherries Do You Know The Peculiar Taste And Odour Of The Pit Of A Cherry Or Peach? Then You Will Recognise It Without Difficulty When You Meet It In A Bruised Leaf Or Twig Of Any Tree That Bears Stone Fruits, Wild Or Cultivated. It Belongs To The Family ...
The Chestnut And Chinquapin
The Chestnut And Chinquapin Next To The Hickory Nuts, We Must Rank The Chestnuts. Some May Give Them First Place In The List Of American Nut Trees. In England The Chestnut Trees One Hears About Are Never Praised For Their Nuts. English Boys And Girls Do Not Eagerly Plan For ...
The Chestnut Oak
The Chestnut Oak The Chestnut Oak Has Leaves Which Are Much Like Those Of The Chestnut Tree. They Are Larger, And Wider, However, And Have Rounded Lobes At The Ends Of The Side Veins, Making A Very Regular Wavy Margin, Compared With That Of Most Oak Leaves. The Lining Is ...
The Cuban Pine
The Cuban Pine The Cuban Pine Or Swamp Pine Of The South, With Stout Green Leaves Eight To Twelve Inches Long, In Twos And Threes, Is Not Confused With The Longleaf Nor The Shortleaf, For Its Leaves Are Intermediate In Length Between The Two. This Beautiful Pine Grows In Forests ...
The Disappointing Hickories
The Disappointing Hickories The Pignut Has Been Given This Ugly Name Because Farmers, In The Early Days, Turned Their Pigs Into Woodland Pastures To Fatten On The Thin-shelled Nuts That Dropped From This Kind Of Hickory Tree. They Are Not Bitter, But Merely Tasteless, And It Is Only A " ...
The Early Berries In
The Early Berries In The Woods Robins Come To Our Cherry Trees In June, And They Hunt For Our Strawberries Under The Green Leaves. The Blackberrries Come On, And The Raspberries, And Currants. The Birds Look At Them With Calculating Eyes. An Appetite For Berries Is Inherited In Them, Learned ...
The English Walnut
The English Walnut The English Walnut Trees Are Grown In Orchards In Southern California. These Trees Are Quick To Grow, And Come Early Into Bearing. When You Buy A Pound Of These Thin-shelled Nuts At The Corner Grocery Store; You May Well Wonder Where They Grew. Perhaps Little Children Picked ...
The Five Leaved Soft Pines
The Five-leaved Soft Pines An Evergreen With Needle-like Leaves In Bundles, Two To Five Leaves In A Bundle, Is A Pine. These Bundles Are Usually Bound With A Thin, Papery Sheath At The Base, And Set In Spiral Rows That Wind Around The Twig. The Leaves In The Newest Sheaths ...
The Great Sugar Pine
The Great Sugar Pine All Along The Coast Mountains From Oregon To Lower California, A Five-leaved Soft Pine Grows Whose Size Makes Our Eastern White Pine Seem Like A Dwarf. In That Far Country Of Big Trees, It Is One Of The Giants. I Had Read Of These Trees Which ...
The Hard Pines
The Hard Pines The Hard Pines Are A Group Of Needle-leaved Evergreens, Whose Leaf Bundles Contain Two Or Three Needles, As A Rule. • The Wood Is Heavy, Usually Dark In Colour, And Saturated With A Resinous, Gummy Sap. The Common Name, " Pitch Pine," Refers To The Resinous Wood; ...
The Hollies
The Hollies No Christmas Is Christmas Truly Without At Least A Few Branches Of The Evergreen Holly Of The South, Whose Leathery, Spiny-pointed Leaves Are Brightened By Clusters Of Red Berries. Every Year, Hundreds Of Crates And Boxes Of These Holly Branches Are Shipped North From The Woods Of Alabaina, ...
The Horse Chestnut And The
The Horse-chestnut And The Buckeyes When An English Lad Speaks Of A Chestnut, He Means The Horse-chestnut, And The Chances Are That He Does Not Know Anything About The Amer Ican Trees, Whose Sweet Nuts We Gather In The Woods At Home After The Frost Has Opened Their Spiny Burs. ...
The Larches
The Larches In The Northern States, And Canada, Long Stretches Of Cold Marsh Land Are Covered With Solid Growths Of Tamarack, Our American Larch Tree. In Summer The Branches Are Covered With Long, Drooping Twigs, Each Set With Many Blunt Side Spurs, From Which A Tuft Of Soft, Needle-like Leaves ...
The Live Oak
The Live Oak The Citizen Of New Orleans Takes His Northern Visitors To Audubon Park, And Points With Pride To The Giant Live Oak Trees. He Does Not Hesitate, For He Knows That The Noble Pair Called " George Washington," And " Martha Washington," Though Crippled Now By Tornadoes, Are ...
The Loblolly Pine
The Loblolly Pine The Fourth Of The Yellow Pines Of The South Is The Loblolly Or Old Field Pine, Whose Lumber Is Saturated With Pitch. The Trees Grow In Marshy Regions Along The Coast, And For The Most Part Occupy Land That Is Sterile And Worthless. These Tide Water Pine ...
The Locusts And Other_p1
The Locusts And Other Bearers When You Find A Tree With Flat Pods, Contain Ing A Row Of Seeds, You May Be Sure It Is A Locust, Or One Of The Family To Which Locusts Belong. It Is A Near Relative Of The Peas And Beans That Grow In The ...
The Locusts And Other_p2
A Coffee Tree Much Like Our Native Species Grows In China. We May Believe That It Is Called By Another Name, For The People Use Its Heavy Pods For Soap. Whether Green Or Ripe, I Do Not Know. The Club-like Branches Of Our Coffee Tree Give It A Burly, Clumsy ...
The Longleaf Pine
The Longleaf Pine The Longleaf Pine Is One Of Four Hard Pines Whose Lumber Is Not Distinguished By Ordinary Carpenters, But Is Generally Called " Yellow Pine." " Georgia Pine " Ranks A Little Higher Than The Rest. That Is The Longleaf, Which Grows Over A Territory Much Greater Than ...
The Maple Family_p1
The Maple Family If You Meet A Tree Of Good Size, With Slender Branches, And Small Buds Set Opposite Upon The Twigs, You May Suspect It Of Being A Maple. The Leaves Are Needed To Assure You. If It Is Winter Time, And The Tree Stands On The Street, The ...
The Maple Family_p2
In Late May The Pairs Of Winged Keys Hang On Short Stems. Each Key Is About Two Inches Long, Fuzzy Green, Until Ripe, Twice The Length Of The Smooth Keys Of The Red Maple, Which Are Ripening At The Same Time. It Is Good Fun To Lie Under A Maple ...
The Maple Family_p3
The Leaf Is About The Size Of The Palm Of My Hand, And Almost Circular. The Border Is Cut Into Many Shallow Lobes. The Seeds Are Char Acteristic Keys, Smooth, And The Wings Of Each Pair Are Spread Almost Opposite Each Other. The Norway Maple Is A Most Popular Street ...
The Needle Leaved Evergreens_p1
The Needle-leaved Evergreens In Our Town And In Our Neighbourhood Most Of The Trees Drop Their Leaves Before Winter Comes, And Stand With Bare Limbs For Several Months. Here And There, However, A Single Tree Stands, Wearing The Same Green Leaves It Wore All Summer. Everybody Knows This Tree As ...
The Needle Leaved Evergreens_p2
Notice That The Little Brackets Are Angled At The Top. Pick Up A Dead Leaf And Notice The Shape Of Its Base. The Leaf Itself Has Angled Sides. Roll It Between Your Thumb And Finger. It Has Three Or Four Sides, And At Least Three Sharp Angles. This Is A ...
The Northern Pitch Pines
The Northern Pitch Pines We Have Nothing In The Northeastern States That Compares In Importance With The Pitch Pine Of Southern Forests, But We Have Pitch Pines Which Everybody Knows. The First Is The Gnarled And Picturesque Pitch Pine That Grows On Worth Less Land, And Thrives In Patches Along ...
The Nut Pines
The Nut Pines A Group Of Soft Pines, With Fewer Needles Than Five In A Bundle, Grows On The Western Mountain Slopes. Small Trees They Are, Which Have To Struggle Hard Against The Winds And Storms, And With The Scant Moisture Of The Desert Air And Soil For A Bare ...
The Oak Family
The Oak Family The Fifty Kinds Of- Oak Trees That Are Native To America Are About Evenly Divided On The Two Sides Of The Rocky Mountains. No Western Oaks Are Found In The Eastern States, And None Of Our Eastern Kinds Grows Wild On The Other Side Of The Mountains. ...
The Pin Oak
The Pin Oak The Pin Oak Has Foliage Much Like The Scarlet Oak, But Coarser And Not So Lustrous. Often A Pin Oak Tree Has Leaves That Approach The Red Oak In Form, And These Lead To Confusion, If Leaves Alone Are Consulted In Determining The Name Of The Tree. ...
The Plums
The Plums All Plum Trees Are Small In Stature, And Many Are Thorny By The Sharpening Of Side Twigs, As If The Struggle With Adverse Conditions Made It Necessary To Carry Weapons Of Defence. I Speak Now Of The Wild Species. They Grow In Thickets, Another Habit Of Self-protection. The ...
The Post Oak
The Post Oak The Post Oak, A Small, Rugged Tree, Is Noticeable In Winter, Because Its Leaves Usually Hang On Until The Open Buds In Spring Push Them Off. The Colour Of This Winter Foliage Is Yellowish Brown, And Not At All Striking Nor Beautiful. The Bark Is Brown And ...
The Red Oak
The Red Oak The Red Oak Is The Tree Most Likely To Be Mis Taken For The Black Oak. The Bark Is Brown, With A Decided Red Tinge. The Twigs Are Also Reddish, And The Wood Is Red-brown. The Inner Bark Has The Same Tinge Instead Of The Orange Coloured ...
The Sassafras
The Sassafras The Sassafras Is Not Important As A Forest Tree, Yet I Do Not Know Another To Whom So Many Kinds Of People, Of All Ages, Go, Asking For Favours This Tree Alone Can Give. Even In Regions Where The Tree Does Not Grow, Its Name Is Well Known. ...
The Scarlet Oak
The Scarlet Oak The Scarlet Oak Need Not Be Confused With Either The Red Or Black Oaks, For It Is A Far More Dainty Tree Than Either In Its Trim Trunk, Grace Ful Curving Branches, Very Slim Twigs, And Deeply Cut Leaves. In Form, These Leaves Are Oval, But So ...
The Service Berries
The Service Berries In The Same Family With Apples And Plums And Cherries Is A Group Of Slender, Pretty Trees Called June Berry, Service Berry, And On The East Coast, Shadbush. When The Shadbush Blossoms White, The Fishermen Know That It Is Time To Expect The Shad, Which Are Taken ...
The Shagbark Hickories
The Shagbark Hickories Best Hickory Nut Tree That Grows Wild In Our American Forests Is The Shagbark, Or Shellbark. Who Says That The Pecan Is Better Than The Nut Of The Little Shagbark? Southern People Insist Upon This, As The Pecan Is The Pride Of The Southern States. As A ...
The Shortleaf Pine
The Shortleaf Pine The Shortleaf Pine Ranks Second Only To The Longleaf Among The Forest Pines Of The South. It Is The Common " Yellow Pine," And " North Carolina Pine " That Is Commonly Sold From Lim Ber Yards In The North And Middle West. Its Wood Is Almost ...
The Southern Pitch Pines
The Southern Pitch Pines The Woodwork And Floors Of A Great Many Houses Of Moderate Cost Are Done To-day In Southern Pine, Sometimes Called " Yellow Pine," Sometimes " Curly Pine." The Alternating Bands Of Dark And Light Yellowish Brown, Often Very Much Waved, Give The Wood An Ornamental Grain ...
The Swamp White Oak
The Swamp White Oak The Swamp White Oak Is A Rugged And Ragged Tree, With Drooping Branches And Crooked Twigs, Covered With Greyish Brown Bark Which Peels In Thin Flakes From Branches And Trunk. This Habit Of Shedding Its Bark In Irregular Plates Reminds Us Strongly Of The Sycamore, Which ...
The Uses Of Trees_p1
The Uses Of Trees Imagine A Stranger Who Has Lived All His Life In A Desert Where No Trees Grow, Coming Suddenly Into Our Village, And Looking With Wonder At The Trees That Shade The Streets. He Knows Only The Spiny Cactuses, And Other Plants Of The Desert. His First ...
The Uses Of Trees_p2
The Bark Of Birches Is Invaluable To The Indians For The Making Of Their Canoes, Baskets, And All Kinds Of Utensils. Huts And Teepees Are Walled With It. Rope And Coarse Cloth Are Made Out Of The Fibre Of Mulberry Bark, And Berry Baskets Out Of The Bark Of The ...
The Uses Of Trees_p3
The Cork In Your Ink Bottle Is The Bark Of An Oak Tree. Go To Portugal Or To Northern Africa, And You May See The Cork, Harvest In Progress In July Or August. There Is No Place To Go For Genuine Cork Except To A Small Ever Green Oak That ...
The White Oak
The White Oak Those Who Know Trees Best Agree That There Is No Nobler Broad-leaved Tree In The American Forests Than The White Oak. Tree Lovers In England Have But One Native Oak Upon Which To Spend Their Loyal Devotion, The Tree Worship Inherited From Druid Ancestors, Whose Temples Were ...
The White Pine
The White Pine The White Pine Has The Softest, Most Hair-like Leaves In The Whole Pine Family. Five Needles Are In Each Bundle, And Each Is Delicate And Flexible. When The Wind Blows Through The Top Of One Of These Five-needled Trees, The End Shoots Nod Like Plumes. The Tree ...
The Willow Family_p1
The Willow Family One Of The First Tree Families Whose Name We Learn Is The Willow Family. The Members Are Numerous, And The Botanists Find Great Diffi Culty In Distinguishing Certain Species, Which Closely Resemble Each Other; But These Troubles We Shall Leave To The Scientist. The Point For Us ...
The Willow Family_p2
Under These Trees, We Shall Find A Good Many Fresh Twigs. Reaching Up To Break One, We Find That It Snaps Off Short At The Base. It Is Not Brittle Along Its Whole Length. Try A Dozen Twigs, And Off They Snap, Almost At A Touch. The Wind Has Broken ...
The Willow Oak
The Willow Oak A Southern Tree With Slender Twigs And Nar Row Leaves Like Those Of A Willow, Surprises Us By Bearing Acorns! It Is The Willow Oak, A Beau Tiful, Graceful Tree For Shade And For Avenue Planting. The Tree Naturally Chooses Wet Ground, But It Thrives Where The ...
The Witch Hazel
The Witch Hazel The Witch Hazel Is Indeed The Witch Of The Woods. It Turns The Year Up-side-down, By Blos Soming In October, At The Same Time That It Is Ripening Its Seeds. For This Reason Every Child Who Lives In A Region Where This Little Tree Grows Should Know ...
Tree Seeds That Have
Tree Seeds That Have Chutes It Is A Thrilling Moment When The Man Who Goes Up With The Balloon Lets Go At Last, And Drops To The Ground. Before He Drops, An Um Brella-like Parachute Opens, And By Its Aid, He Comes To The Ground Gracefully, Slowly, And Alights Unhurt. ...
Trees Most Showy In
Trees Most Showy In Bloom Sometimes A Tree With Very Small Flowers Has Such A Multitude Of Them That It Attracts More At Tention And Admiration When In Blossom Than The Trees With The Largest Flowers. A Magnolia Blos Som As Large As A Cabbage Head Must Sacrifice Delicacy To ...
Trees That Bloom In
Trees That Bloom In Early Spring In Late March, Or Early In April, Before The Leaves Have Come Out On Any Of The Trees Along Your Street, You May Look Out Of An Upper Window And Notice That Strange-looking Tassels Are Hang Ing On The Twigs Of A Poplar Or ...
Trees That Bloom In_p1
Trees That Bloom In Midsummer In Spring The Big Chestnut Tree Is Late In Put Ting Out Its Leaves. It Is May Before The Bare Limbs Are Clothed With Green. This Crown Is Made Of Long, Pointed Leaves, Eackshort-stemmed, Strongly Ribbed, With Parallel Veins On Each Side Of The Midrib, ...
Trees That Bloom In_p2
There Is Stateliness, Even Stiffness, In The Figure Of A Blossoming Horse Chestnut—a Pyramid Of Green Holding Up A Thousand Pyramids Of White. The Catalpa Has A Round Head, And The Loose Flower Clusters Are Quite Informal In Their Ar Rangement. The Flowers Nod Gracefully On Their Stems—a Thing The ...
Trees We Know By
Trees We Know By Their Shapes The Life Of Every Tree Depends Upon Its Suc Cess In Holding Its Leaves Out Into The Sun Light. The Tree Which Exposes The Greatest Amount Of Leaf Surface To The Sun Makes The Greatest Growth. The Shape Of Their Tops Is A Character ...
Trees We Know By_2
Trees We Know By Their Thorns In Winter Time, The Bare Limbs Of Trees Reveal Many Strange Secrets, Which The Leaves Cover Up In Summer. Some Trees We May Know By The Thorns They Wear. The Honey Locust Scarcely Conceals In Summer The Three-branched Thorns, For Which It Is Famous. ...
Trees We Know By_p1
Trees We Know By Their Bark Hunters And Foresters Who Spend Much Of Their Time In The Woods Learn To Know Trees By Name Through Long Acquaintance. In The Dead Of Winter, The Framework Of A Tree May Be Enough To Recognise It By. Where Trees Are Crowded, This Sign ...
Trees We Know By_p2
An Old Shagbark Tree Is A Picturesque Figure, As It Lifts Its Bare Arms Up Toward The Wintry Sky. The Trunk Is Straight, But The Branches Are Full Of Angles. Yet, With All Their Rigidity, These Limbs Have An Expression Of Strength, If Not Of Grace, And The Tree's Head ...
Trees We Know By_p3
Another Tree With Warty Bark Is The Sweet Gum. The Negroes Of The South Call The Tree " Alligator Wood," Because The Lower Part Of The Trunk Is Broken By Furrows And Cross-furrows Into Horny Plates Like The Skin Of An Alligator. From The Red-brown Trunk Up Into The Grey ...
Trees With The Largest_p1
Trees With The Largest Flowers I F We Set Out To Find The Trees That Have The Largest Flowers, Meaning To Count Only Trees That Grow Wild In Our Woods, It Will Save Time To Go Straight South Into North Carolina, And Climb The Foot Hills Of The Allegheny Mountains. ...
Trees With The Largest_p2
The Cucumber Tree Is The Magnolia Of The North. It Is A Fine Tree In Ontario, Canada, And From This Region It Spreads South, Its Range Wid Ening Like A Fan, Reaching From Arkansas To The Carolinas, And Mississippi, And Alabama. The Tropical Appearance Of The Tree Is Due To ...
Trees With Winged Seeds_p1
Trees With Winged Seeds Why Do The Trees Grow In Such Mixed Groves, When Nature Does The Planting? Here And There We Find Solid Groves Of Beech Or Oak, But The Forest Is, For The Most Part, A Gathering Together Of All Kinds Of Trees. A Part Of The Beauty ...
Trees With Winged Seeds_p2
I Have Said That A Maple Seed Is Shaped Like That Of No Other Tree. I Must Describe Here The Seeds Of The Needle-leaved Evergreens, Which, Though Very Much Smaller, Are Somewhat Like Maple Seeds In Form. Go To A Pine Tree Or A Spruce, And Get One Of The ...
Two Conifers Not Evergreen
Two Conifers Not Evergreen Two Cone-bearing Trees Have The Astonishing Habit Of Letting Go Their Leaves In The Fall, And Thus Setting Themselves Apart From The Ever Greens, To Which They Are Otherwise Closely Re Lated. Their Cones Are Like Those Of Pines And Spruces. Their Leaves Are Needle-like, And ...
Valuable Sap Of Trees
Valuable Sap Of Trees In Early Spring On The New Hampshire Hill Sides, The Sap Begins To Mount The Trunks Of The Sugar Maple Trees, Dissolving The Sugar Stored In The Wood Cells During The Previous Summer. It Is Time For The Making Of Maple Sugar. Win Ter Is Over. ...
White And Red The
The Cedars, White And Red Beside The Needle-leaved Evergreens Just De Scribed, There Are Some Trees We All Know, That Bear Cones, And Are Evergreens, But Their Leaves Are Strangly Different From Those Of Pines, Spruces, Firs, And Hemlocks. One Of These Is The Familiar Arbor Vita, A Conical Tree, ...
Why Trees Need Leaves
Why Trees Need Leaves Spring Or Early Summer Is The Best Time To Study The Leaves Of Trees. They Are Clean, And Fresh, And New. Every Tree Is A Great Mound Of Green. The Broad-leaved Trees Seem To Be Thatched Or Shingled With Overlapping Blades So That No Sunlight Can ...
Wild Apple Trees And
Wild Apple Trees And Their Kin Go Out Into The Woods, And You Will Find Wild Crab Apple Trees, Bearing Hard, Sour Little Apples, Unfit To Eat. Four Distinct Kinds Are Native To This Country. In Eastern Asia Wild Apple Trees Grow In Greater Variety Than Here. Our Orchard Apple ...