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INTRODUCTION xi

PART I

THE LIFE OF THE TREES 3

PART II

THE NUT TREES 28

The Walnuts; The Hickories; The Beech; The Chestnuts; The Oaks; The Horse-chestnuts; The Lindens

WATER-LOVING TREES 75

The Poplars; The Willows; The Hornbeams; The Birches; The Alders; The Sycamores; The Gum Trees; The Osage Orange

PART IV

TREES WITH SHOWY FLOWERS AND FRUITS 101

The Magnolias; The Dogwoods; The Viburnums; The Mountain Ashes; The Rhododendron; The Mountain Laurel; The Madro??a; The Sorrel Tree; The Silver Bell Trees; The Sweet Leaf; The Fringe Tree; The Laurel Family; The Witch Hazel; The Burning Bush; The Sumachs; The Smoke Tree; The Hollies

PART V

WILD RELATIVES OF OUR ORCHARD TREES 147

The Apples; The Plums; The Cherries; The Hawthorns; The Service-berries; The Hackberries; The Mulberries; The Figs; The Papaws; The Pond Apples; The Persimmons

PART VI

THE POD-BEARING TREES 176

The Locusts; The Acacias; Miscellaneous Species

DECIDUOUS TREES WITH WINGED SEEDS 193

The Maples; The Ashes; The Elms

THE CONE-BEARING EVERGREENS 217

The Pines; The Spruces; The Firs; The Douglas Spruce; The Hemlocks; The Sequoias; The Arbor-vitaes; The Incense Cedar; The Cypresses; The Junipers; The Larches

THE PALMS 280

GENERAL INDEX 283

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Shagbark Hickory 6

Mockernut Fruit and Leaves 7

A Grove of Beeches 22

Chestnut Tree 23

Weeping Beech 30

Black Walnut 31

White Oak 38

Bur or Mossy-cup Oak Leaves and Fruit 39

Horse-chestnut in Blossom 54

Weeping Willow 55

Tulip Tree, Flower and Leaves 103

Flowering Dogwood 118

American Elm 215

Eastern Red Cedars and Hickory 230

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Black Walnut Shoots 70

Shagbark Hickory 71

American Linden Leaves and Fruit 86

Trembling Aspen Catkins and Leaves 86-87

Pussy Willow Flowers 86-87

American Hornbeam--A Fruiting Branch 87

The Tattered, Silky Bark of the Birches 102

Sycamore Bark and Seed-balls 102-103

Bark, Seeds, and Seed-balls of the Sweet Gum 102-103

Osage Orange Leaves, and Flowers 119

Dogwood Bark, Blossom, Fruit, and Buds 134

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