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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 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 MadroA+-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

                         PART VII

  DECIDUOUS TREES WITH WINGED SEEDS                              193

  The Maples; The Ashes; The Elms

                         PART VIII

  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

                         PART IX

  THE PALMS                                                      280

  GENERAL INDEX                                                  283




LIST OF  ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                PAGE

  Canoe or Paper Birch                                    _On Cover_

  A Bend in the Trail                                 _Frontispiece_

  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




LIST OF OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

                                                                PAGE

  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

  Mountain Ash Flowers and Leaves                                135

  Sassafras Flowers, Fruit, and Leaves                           150

  Foliage and Flowers of the Smooth Sumach                   150-151

  Buds, Leaves, and Fruit of the Wild Crab