TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



The Forests, page 1. Object of the Report, 2. Uses of the forests ; — form a soil, 3. 

 Conduct electricity, 4. Soften the climate, protect from winds, 5. Give beauty to 

 a country, 6. Variety of our forest trees, 9. Use for shade, 10. Furnish ma- 

 terials for the arts, 11. Shipbuilding, 12. The forests wasted, 13. Maple sugar, 

 14. Fuel, 14. Continuation and improvement of the forests, 16. Species of trees, 

 17. Names little known, 18. Trees for fuel, shipbuilding, 19. Fencing, fur- 

 niture, implements, tanning, 20. Improvable lands, 21. Rocky hills ; marshes, 

 22. Thinning and pruning, 23. The principle of pruning ; mode, 24. Select- 

 ing, 25. Cutting smooth; how soon renewed, 25. Age, 27. Season, 27. Suc- 

 cession of forests, 29. Things injurious to a forest : browsing, injudicious prun- 

 ing, sea breeze, 31 Upon planting near the sea ; on exposed hills, 32. Strength 

 and durability of timber, 33. Buffon's mode of felling, 34. 



Woody Plants of Massachusetts ; distribution into families and genera ; description 

 of a flower and fruit, 37. Figures, 38. Division into families, 39. Plants with 

 opposite leaves, 40. Plants with alternate leaves, 41. Division into genera, 42. 



FIRST GENERAL DIVISION. Dicotyledonous Plants, 45. 



Chapter I. Plants with naked seeds. 



Family I. Pine Family, 47. Products of the pines, 48. Root; trunk, 49. 

 Branches; wood, 50. Leaves, 51. Buds; flower, 52. Fruit, 53. Insects on 

 the pines, 54. Soil for pines, 56. Propagation and culture, 57. Transplanting ; 

 division, 59. Section First. Pine and Fir Tribe. Genus 1. The Pine. Sp. 1. 

 White pine, 60. Sp. 2. Pitch pine, 66. Planting with, 71. Sp. 3. Red or Nor- 

 way pine, 74. Genus 2. Spruce. Sp. 1. Hemlock, 77. Sp. 2. Black or Dou- 

 ble Spruce, 81. Sp. 3. Single or White Spruce, 84. Genus 3. Fir. Sp. 1. Bal- 

 sam fir, 85. European fir. Sp. 2. Double balsam fir, 88. Genus 4. Larch. 

 Sp. 1. Hacmatack, 89. Planting with larch, 91. Cedar of Lebanon, 95. 

 Section Second. Cypress Tribe. Genus5. Arbor Vita?. Cedar. Sp. 1. Ameri- 

 can arbor vita?, 96. Genus 6. Cedar or Cypress. Sp. 1. White cedar, 98. Fence 

 of, 100. European cypress, Southern cypress, 101. Genus 7. Juniper. Sp. 1. 

 Red cedar, 102. Cedar apple, 106. Sp. 2. Juniper, 108. Section Third 

 The Yews. Genus 8. Yew, 110. Sp. 1. Ground hemlock, 111. 



Chapter II. Amentaceous Plants. 



Family II. Oak Family, 113. Genus 1. Oak, 115. Value, 116. Insects on, 

 117. Bark, 120. Root, 121. Flowers ; fruit, 122. Growth, 123. Species, 124. 

 Arrangement, 125. Table of species, 126. Sp. 1. White oak, 127. Sp. 2. 



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