Index 



Acorns, 137. 



Age of some trees, 40, 58, 229; how 

 to tell the age of trees, 46, 49; the 

 tree's life in age, 64, 68; five ages 

 of trees, 60. 



American elm, 139. 



Andros, Sir Edmund, and the Char- 

 ter Oak, 219. 



Animals in the woods, 15, 24, 52, 84, 

 105. 



Arbor Day, 100, 102. 



Ash, seeds of the, 51. 



Backwoods dining room, 160. 



Balsam fir, the, 118, 119. 



Bandsaws, a mill with, 27, 177. 



Beauty of trees, the, 103. 



Beech, the, 124; origin of name, 125. 



Bible, 125. 



Birch, canoe, 142; seeds of, 51. 



Birds as planters of seeds, 52. 



Bird's-eye maple, 153. 



Bjornson, Bjornstjerne,quoted, 107. 



Boston Liberty Tree, 223. 



Bracket fungi, 77. 



By-products of the forest, 179. 



Cabin, log, of early settlers, 16-22; 



of lumbermen, 158. 

 Calaveras Grove, 230. 

 California, big trees of, 40, 216, 229; 



sugar pines of, 54. 

 Cambridge, Mass., the Washington 



Elm at, 227. 

 Canker in trees, 78. 



Canoe, birch bark, 142, 145; dug- 

 out, 149. 



Caterpillars as enemies to trees, 80. 



Cedar, the red, 121. 



Charcoal and charcoal burners, 127, 

 187. 



Charter Oak of Connecticut, 219. 



Chestnut, the, 128; chestnut blight, 

 77, 129. 



Chlorophyll, 44. 



Chorley, Henry F., poem on "The 

 Oak" quoted, 138. 



Christmas trees, 118, 119. 



Circular saws, mill with, 28. 



Coal, produced from forests, 70, 99. 



Cones and conifers, 53, 108, 112, 

 115, 118, 124. 



Conservation of forests, 33, 91. 



Curly maple, 153. 



Deserts, 104. 

 Diseases of trees, 75. 

 "Don'/.?" to be remembered, 87. 

 Dugout canoes, 149. 



Economic value of forests, 29. 



Elm, American, 139-141; Washing- 

 ton Elm, 227. 



Enemies of trees, 72, 79, 82. 



Evergreens, 59, 61, 108, 112, 115. 

 118, 121., 



Felling the trees, 163. 

 Fir, the balsam, 118. 

 Fireplace, the open, 22. 



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