Trees that every child should know; easy tree studies for all seasons of the year

by Julia Ellen Rogers

Ebook, 1909

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CONTENTS

How to know the trees

AUTUMN STUDIES

THE NUT TREES

Shagbark hickories
Disappointing hickories
Black walnut
Butternut
English walnut
Chestnut and Chinquapin
Beech
Witch hazel
Oak family

THE WHITE OAK GROUP

White Oak
Burr or Mossy-cup Oak
Live oak
Post oak
Swamp white oak
Chestnut oak

THE BLACK OAK GROUP

Black oak
Red oak
Scarlet oak
Pin oak
Willow oak

Trees with winged seeds
Tree seeds that have parachutes
The autumn berries in the woods
The changing colour of the autumn woods

WINTER STUDIES

Trees we know by their bark
Trees we know by their shape
Trees we know by their thorns
Needle-leaved evergreens
Five-leaved soft pines
White pine
Great sugar pine
Nut pines
Hard pines
Southern pitch pines
Longleaf pine
Shortleaf pine
Cuban pine
Loblolly pine
Northern pitch pines
Cedars, white and red
Conifers not evergreen
Larches
Bald cypress
Hollies
Burning bush

SPRING STUDIES

The awakening of the trees
Trees that bloom in early spring
The American Elm and its kin
The maple family
The willow family
Why trees need leaves
Leaves of all shapes and sizes

SUMMER STUDIES

Trees with the largest flowers
Trees most showy in bloom
Trees that bloom in midsummer
The early berries in the woods
The sassafras
The ash family
The horse-chestnut and the buckeyes
The buckeyes
The locusts and other pod-bearers
Wildd apple trees and their kin
The cherries
The plums
The service berries
Valuable sap of trees
The uses of trees

Identification keys to tree groups and families
Index

Description

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