14 Common Trees 



should lead us, on the one hand, to plant more trees to make good the 

 losses, and on the other, to do more to protect them from enemies. 



Some of this science — information on what planting will likely prove 

 permanent, when to plant, and how to care and protect trees, is being 

 given us by the American Tree Association. But the Association is 

 especially eager that all our teachers and all the pupils in our schools 

 shall have the desire to start and care for trees, and in some way act on 

 the desire. TTiis impulse will be strengthened if we know trees, the 

 native trees especially, but also other trees in the parks and orchards. 



To know nothing of trees marks an ignorant man or woman about 

 as plainly as any other sort of ignorance. Fortunately it has become 

 fashionable for persons to be interested both in nature and in America's 

 resources. Knowledge of trees and their growth belongs in both of 

 these lines of study. 



W. B. Bliss, 



Assistant Director, 

 Ohio Dept. of Education. 



TREES ARE TRUEST FRIENDS 



Do we study music in our schools because all of us intend to be 

 musicians? Do we study art in our schools because all of us intend 

 to be architects or artists? Do we not study these subjects that we 

 may be the better able to understand and enjoy good music, and appre- 

 ciate more thoroughly beautiful buildings and bridges and paintings? 



It is the same with other things in life. The more we know about 

 the things which fill our lives, either in our employment or our pleasure 

 or our spiritual life, the more they mean to us and the more worth while 

 they are. Trees are no exception. To know trees merely through 

 the name-trees — not understanding their individual properties and qualities 

 and characteristics — is to miss far more in our enjoyment of them than 

 we realize. 



This would be a sorry world without trees. They are the truest 

 friends we have, for they are continually working and growing to make 

 this world beautiful, healthy, productive and enjoyable. Take them 

 away and the winds rage, the floods surge through the valleys, the rich 

 top soil is lost, the streams dry up, game perishes, birds disappear, and 

 industry ceases. 



Without industry, civilization declines and nations disintegrate. 



As loyal American citizens, we must do our duty not only in obeying 

 the laws, but in helping to keep our land growing the wood necessary 

 for its prosperity. 



Our spiritual life is nurtured by the peace and rest which comes 

 through the love of the trees, and from communion with nature in the 

 woodland. 



To know our trees as individuals, as distinct species and varieties, 

 is to give us an added interest in them. This interesting booklet, pub- 

 lished by the American Tree Association, offers this opportunity, and a 

 careful study of its contents will do much to add beauty and usefulness 

 to our lives. 



Mrs. W. W. Milar, 



Chairman, Division of Conservation 



Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs. 



