Contents. ix 



rn AFTER XXIT. 



DESCRIPTION OF PARTICTLAR SPECIES. 



Oaks Chestnuts Beeches Birches Alders Hornbeam Maples 

 Box-Elders Lindens Elms Osage-Orange Mulberry Hackberry 

 Tulip-tree Sycamores Buckeyes Soap-berry Locusts Coffee- 

 tree Red-bud Acacias Yellow-wood Pears and Apples Crab- 

 trees Plums and Cherries Thorn-trees Service-berry Eucalyptus 

 Eugenias Cornel Family Sour-Gum Elders Elms Butter- 

 bush Silver-bell Ashes Olive Lilac Hickories Black "Walnut 

 Butternut Poplars Cotton woods Willows Allan thus Arbutus 

 Manzinita Paw-paws Catalpas Mountain Mahogany Persim- 

 mon Burning-Bush Holly Family Laurels Sweet-Gum Mag- 

 nolias Pride-of-India Iron-woods Sorrel tree Mesquits Buck- 

 thorns Sumacs Sassafras Buffalo-berry Mahogany Arrow- 

 wood, etc L> 10-299- 



'HAl'TKi; XXIII. 



THE CON1KKKS. 



General Statement and Definitions Classification Cypress Family 

 Yews Families not represented in U. S. Pine Family The Cy- 

 presses and White Cedars The Junipers Keel-Cedars Bnld-Cypress 

 Sequoias Giant-trees Redwood Yews Torreyas Ginkgo 

 Pines Spruces Hemlocks Douglas Fir Firs Larches... 299-34o 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



TREE-PLANTING IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. 



List of Species approved in Kansas, by Counties Propagation by Cut- 

 tings and Native Seedlings Distances between Trees Effect of 

 Shelter-belts Locust-trees in Central Kansas Gathering and Pre- 

 serving Seeds Preparation of the Ground Tree-culture on tho 

 Plains... ,. 346-353 



Recent Decision under Timber-culture Act 354 



