NOTES 



Note 1, page 5. There are about fifty distinct species 

 of oak indigenous to the United States. 



Note 2, page 23. The bloom of the dogwood be- 

 gins to wither and fall with the appearance of 

 the leaves. In the illustration facing page 22 sev- 

 eral leaves are seen among the bloom, but they 

 belong to the bough of a neighboring tulip tree. 



Note 3, page 47. The juniper berries are in reality 

 transformed cones. 



Note 4, page 52. The habit of the firs in early life 

 is shown in the plate facing page 125. 



Note 5, page 63. Curiously enough, the old Eng- 

 lish conception of a forest was chiefly that of a 

 hunting ground, irrespective of the trees grow- 

 ing there. Consequently some forests were very 

 open stretches of ground. 



Note 6, page 71. The red-winged blackbird lin- 

 gers in the Southern States through the winter. 



Note 7, page 163. German forestry — and, in a less 

 degree, European forestry also — is indebted to 

 Herr von Salisch for elaborating the idea that 

 forest art can be united with practical, utilitarian 

 forestry. His book on " Forest Esthetics," which 

 fills a unique place in the literature of forestry, 

 is an exposition of this interesting subject, based 

 upon mature knowledge and experience. 



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