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Fires in the forest, 82. 



Fire warden, 83. 



Floods and the forest, 89. 



Florida, a forest in, 57. 



Food of trees, 66. 



Forestry and foresters, 60. 



Forests, of America, 11; in early 

 days, 13; in history, 29; of to-day, 

 34, 56; damaged by insects, 79, 

 81; destroyed by fires, 82; floods 

 and the forest, 89; economic 

 value, 29; conservation of, 33, 91. 



Fungi, 75. 



Furniture, 98. 



Gum, spruce, 206. 



Hardwoods, 124, 150. 

 Hauling the logs, 166. 

 Hemlock, the, 115, 186. 

 Hickory, the shagbark, 107, 131. 

 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, quoted, 



228. 

 House-raising in the new country, 



17. 

 How to know the trees, 95; how 



Nature plants, 50. 



India rubber, 98. 



Indians in the forests, 14, 24, 29, 

 114, 142, 144, 149, 171, 217, 221. 

 Insects injurious to trees, 79. 

 Irving, Washington, quoted, 138. 



Jam, a log, 171. 

 Jamestown, Va., 25. 



Leather tanned with bark, 193. 

 Log cabins, 16, 21, 157, 158. 

 Log drive, the, 169. 

 Loggers or lumberjacks, 156, 160. 



Maple, seeds of the, 51 ; varieties of, 

 150; sugar, 151-154; curly, 153. 



Michigan, forest fires in, 85. 



Morris, George P., poem, "Wood- 

 man, spare that Tree," 99. 



Mountain streams, 90. 



Nebraska, schoolhouse in, 100, 101. 

 New Amsterdam, sawmills at, 25. 

 Nuts, gathering of, 107. 



Oak, white, 135. 

 Oases, 104. 



Palm trees of Florida, 56. 



Paper from wood pulp, 117, 181. 



Pencils, lead, 123. 



Penn's treaty tree, 217. 



Pines, how to tell age of, 48; of Cali- 

 fornia, 54; of New England, 58; 

 white pine, 108. 



Pitsawing, 24. 



Planting trees, 33; how nature 

 plants, 50, 52. 



Poles, 62. 



Poplar, the, 146, 148. 



Prairies, the, 34. 



Prehistoric forest, 70. 



Products of the forest, 97; by- 

 products, 179. 



"Pulp wood," 181. 



Railroads and the forests, 30, 129. 

 Red cedar, 121; red spruce, Hi. 

 River drivers, 167. 

 Roads in the forests, 30, 105, 167. 



Saplings and seedlings, 61. 

 Sawmills, the first, 23; modern, 28, 



176, 178. 

 Seeds of trees, 50. 



