Could We Get Along without the Trees? 95 



having such medicines within reach. Quinine made from 

 the bark of the cinchona tree is perhaps the most important. 

 Camphor gum is furnished by another tropical tree. The 

 acacia supplies gum arable. The poison, strychna, comes 

 from a nut tree. The eucalyptus, birch, and other trees 

 too numerous to name, supply various other medicinal 

 products. 



While we are trying to find other substances to replace 

 wood as far as is possible, so as to keep the forests from being 

 used up, we are requiring more and more for the manufac- 

 ture of paper. The spruce forests are fast disappearing 

 in pulp mill s, from which the blocks of wood emerge as 

 sheets of paper. Perhaps after a time we shaU find some- 

 thing to take the place of wood in the manufacture of paper. 



The one use to which we put the trees, which does not 

 destroy or injure them in the slightest, is growing them for 

 their fruit and nuts. We take great care of such trees, 

 selecting the best varieties and cultivating, trimming, and 

 sprajdng them in order to keep them healthy and strong. 

 The better the care that we give them, the finer and larger 

 become their fruits. 



Trees are valuable to us in so many ways and appeal so 

 deeply to our love of the beautiful things in Nature that we 

 should all be interested in them. If we give the trees a 

 chance, they will do their share toward making our lives 

 comfortable and happy. 



