Preface 



There is a mighty precedent for this innovation, 

 for thus Nature begins. The chapters which 

 follow can be used as fittingly in the depth of 

 winter as at any other season. Towards the end 

 of the book, keeping pace with the advance of 

 spring, there are chapters on the budding and the 

 blossoming of trees. 



For information and illustrations used in the 

 chapters on " Our National Forests " and " The 

 Forester and His Work " I am indebted to Mr. 

 Horace Bushnell of the United States Forest 

 Service. For literature and pictures I have to 

 thank the United States Bureau of Forestry, and 

 also the Forestry Branch of the Department of 

 the Interior at Ottawa — especially the Superin- 

 tendent of the Dominion Forest Reserves. 



Kind assistance has also been lent me In the 

 Forest Products Laboratory of Canada, where 

 the chapter on Dominion Forests was read and 

 passed upon. 



Thanks are due to the Montreal Star, the New 

 York Evening Post, and the Home and School 

 Visitor for permission to use again some material 

 which has appeared in those periodicals. 



Maud Going. 



