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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

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