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with the trees concerning whose names there is no dispute to 

 feel that we have greatly enlarged the circle of our friendships, 

 for one must be unbelievably blind to study trees merely as in- 

 sensate things. They are, rather, living organisms, developing 

 with the passage of years marked individualities of growth; 

 but maintaining ever the strong characteristics of their respective 

 families and, as we meet them, and come to know them as we 

 know our human friends, we shall find them scarcely less capa- 

 ble of sympathy, companionship and love." 



Shrubs 

 Rhode Island shrubs offer fascinating fields for exploration 

 for the more adventuresome. Why should trees be so generally 

 known and shrubs almost completely neglected? Mr. William 

 F. Janes is making a study of the Dogwoods or Cornels. One 

 member of this group, I shall have to admit, is altogether too 

 well known for its own safety, the Flowering Dogwood. Vandal 

 hands bring great branches of the strikingly beautiful flower 

 clusters into the city in the spring. Acquaintance with it is 

 only for a few weeks in the year, however, for comparatively 

 few people know the crimson, elongated berries of Mr. Janes' 

 photograph. Still fewer know the tree in its winter condition 

 with long pointed leaf buds and rounded, shortened flower buds. 

 Last fall photographs of berry-bearing branches of our native 

 Cornels were made; with the coming of the spring Mr. Janes 

 plans to complete his collection of the shrubs in the flowering 

 condition. 



Tree Diseases 



The trees are no exception to the sad but universal truth that 

 all living things have their enemies. Foes of the trees are numer- 

 ous indeed and claim our attention exactly in proportion to the 

 value of the sufferers. Then, too, these marauders make inter- 

 esting studies in themselves quite apart from their economic 

 value. Miss Clara M. Chase has selected Tree Diseases as her 

 hobby. 



"In October 1919 Mr. William G. Vinal led a Rhode Island 

 Field Naturalists trip to Pocasset Falls, subject "Tree Diseases." 

 It was then I became interested in Fungi. Mr. Vinal made it 



