INDEX 



Acer negundo, 45 



— platanoides, 44, 123 



— I)olymorphum, 122 



— pseudoi^latanus, 44 



— rubriim, 120, 125 



— saccharinum, 38 



— saccharum, 37, 121 

 ^sculus hippocastanum, 33, 120 



— rubicunda, 121 



Ailing tree, how to tell an, 153 

 Air, influence of, 117 

 Alternate branched trees, 31 

 American beech, 68 



— elm, 47, 50, 119, 125, 126 



— larch, 29 



— linden, 95 

 Annual rings, 186, 220 

 Aphides or plant lice, 68, 152 

 Apjjle rust, 22 



Arbor-vitan and red cedar, descrip- 

 tion of, 19 



— (northern white cedar), 22 

 Arsenate of lead, 138 



Ash, wood, 227 



— black, 35, 227 



— white, 35, 126 

 Ash-leaf maple, 46 

 Aspen, large-toothed, 54 

 — , quaking, 54 

 Austrian i^ine, 9, 11, 122 



Bald cypress, 30 

 Balm of Gilead, 54 

 Balsam, fir, 225 

 '— , poplar, 54 



Bark, 106 



Bark, how to prevent splitting 

 when removing branches, 162 



— or trunk, trees told by their, 59 

 Bass-wood, 98 



Bean, Indian, 104 



Beech, American, 68 



— , blue, or hornbeam, 59, 70 



— , copper, 120 



— , European, 69 



— tree, 59, 128, 231 

 Beetle, elm leaf, 49, 141 

 Betula alba, 68, 120 



■ — lutea, 68 



— lenta, 66 



— papyrifera, 66 

 • — populifolia, 64 

 Bhotan pine, 6, 122 

 Bigbud hickory, 87 

 Birch, black, 66 



■ — , European white, 68, 120 



— fungus rot, 157 

 — , gray, 64 



— , paper, 66 

 — , sweet, 66 



— tree, 59 

 — , white, 64 

 — , yellow, 68 

 Bitternut hickory, 87 

 Black ash, 35, 227 



— birch, 66 



— locust, 100, 126 



— oak, 75 



— or sweet birch, 232 



— spruce, 15 



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