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compelled to call in the services of an expert in forestry ; 

 nor should any landowner, when he desires to reclothe his 

 denuded lands with valuable species of trees, be unable in- 

 telligently to direct such work. 



Technical terms are avoided wherever possible, but are 

 absolutely necessary to identify the several species, for 

 nearly all of our valuable timber trees are loaded with num- 

 erous local common names, some have more than a score, 

 and identification would be impossible without the use 

 of a scientific name which has been established by usage 

 and common consent and adopted by all recognized author- 

 ities. A glossary of all these terms will be found in the 

 Appendix, on a page devoted to that purpose. In giving 

 the common and scientific names of the several species of 

 trees which are considered worthy of consideration, I have 

 followed the Check List of the Forest Trees of the United 

 States, by George B. Sud worth, Dendrologist of the United 

 States Forest Service, as the one which should be accepted 

 as a standard of authority. In no other case is a technical 

 term used where there is a substitute, and where there is 

 no substitute the meaning of the term is explained. 



Perusal will disclose the fact that the main purpose of 

 this volume is to urge, aid, and encourage tree-growing for 

 economic purposes only, and it is more than probable that 

 the reader will ask why certain species now being largely 

 used have been deemed of enough importance to be de- 

 scribed at length and yet are not recommended for cultiva- 

 tion. The answer is that the forests of the future must be 

 largely grown with planted trees, and there is no reason 

 why we should plant or in any wise grow any but the most 

 suitable and valuable ones - those that will produce the 

 best and most needed forest products in the shortest time, 

 and with the least labor and expense ; and such only have 

 been recommended. We now accept less valuable species 

 because they are present with us and they have cost us 

 nothing to grow. Hereafter it will cost both money and 

 labor and require much time to grow forests, and in the 



