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M// Devoted to imparting information about trees, 

 woods and forests to boys and girls, so 

 that they may grow to know how neces- 

 sary trees are to the health, 'wealth ana 

 future of their country. 



By Bristow Adams 



OUR OAKS 



MOST persons who study trees try to 

 group them according to their rela- 

 tionships, which, of course, is the 

 only wise plan for a strict study. But since 

 we are not so much interested in the relation 

 of trees to one another as we are in the rela- 

 tion of trees to man, we shall in this depart- 

 ment group trees according to their uses. 

 Lumbermen rather than botanists have taken to 

 this plan, and have first classified trees as 

 hardwoods and softwoods, although those trees 

 which they call softwoods the ones which 

 bear cones and have needle-like leaves do not 

 always furnish the softest lumber. There is 

 the general division of the two great types 

 of trees, most familiar to all of us, into ever- 

 greens and deciduous, or trees which drop their 

 leaves in winter, with the general understand- 

 ing that the evergreens are the cone bearers. 

 Yet here again are exceptions because there 

 are a number of cone-bearing trees like the 

 larch and the cypress which lose their leaves 

 in the winter just as the beech and the maple 

 lose theirs. Then, too, there are the broad- 

 leaved trees, like the magnolia and the holly, 

 which are evergreen. The term "deciduous" 

 is usually applied only to the broad-leaved 

 kinds. Thus it can be seen that most of the 

 general names fail in one way or another to 

 classify the various types. In this department 

 we shall first divide the trees into the two gen- 

 eral classes understood by the lumberman's 

 term of "hardwoods" for broad-leaved trees, 

 and "softwoods" for the cone bearers, such 

 as pines, spruces, hemlocks and the like, 

 whether they keep their leaves through the 

 winter or not. 



When one thinks of the hardwoods woods 

 which have been of the greatest use to man 

 because they are hard, and strong, and will 

 wear well under constant use the oak natur- 

 ally comes to mind. It has served man since 

 he first began to use wood at all, and it is 

 probable that even before tools were invented. 

 primitive man discovered that a well-seasoned 

 young oak, was, because of its hardness, 



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