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  TREES WORTH KNOWING




    [Illustration: A BEND IN THE TRAIL]




  _LITTLE NATURE LIBRARY_

  TREES
  WORTH KNOWING

  BY JULIA ELLEN ROGERS

  (_Author of_ _The Tree Book_, _The Tree Guide_, _Trees
  Every Child Should Know_, _The Book of Useful
  Plants_, _The Shell Book_, _etc., etc._)

   [Illustration: "Fructus Quam Folia"]

  _With forty-eight illustrations, sixteen being in color_

  PUBLISHED BY
  DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
         FOR
  NELSON DOUBLEDAY, INC.
        1923




  _Copyright, 1917, by_

  DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

  _All rights reserved, including that of
  translation into foreign languages,
  including the Scandinavian_

  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
              AT
  THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS. GARDEN CITY, N. Y.




CONTENTS


                                                                PAGE

  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

                         PART III

  WATER-LOVING TREES                                              75

   The Poplars; The Willows; The Hornbeams; The Birches;
   The Alders; The Sycamores; The