Trees, Stars, and Birds 



FIG. 2. A sugar maple in summer. 



Jesse E. Hyde 



any household fifty different articles could be found that 

 are made wholly or in part from the products of trees. 

 Millions of persons are engaged in making these articles 

 and in procuring and preparing the necessary materials. 

 A knowledge of trees and woods is, therefore, not only 

 satisfying to our minds, but useful in every kind of manual 

 work. Few subjects that we study have more practical 

 value than trees and the woods that come from them. 



Studying trees by seeing and thinking. The following 

 pages will help you* to become acquainted with some 

 of the trees that are common over large parts of the 

 United States and with others that are especially useful 

 to us. But reading a book about trees is of little use, 

 if you do riot observe the trees themselves. Notice the 

 buds, blossoms, and fruit, the shape of the tree and 

 arrangement of its branches, the color of the bark, the 



