LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FIO. 



1. Cross-section of woody stems. 



2. Characteristic root formations. 



3. A young WhiteWillow windbreak on dry prairie. 



4. A good tree claim in Minnesota near thfe Dakota Line. 



5. Hardy Catalpa. Plantation of South Amona Colony, Kansas. 



6. Suggestion for laying out the farmstead. 



7. Suggestion in detail for laying out grounds about buildings on 



a prairie farm. 



8. Virgin forest in Minnesota. 



9. Trees with branches cut off before falling, so as to prevent in- 



jury to young growth around them. 



10. Diagram illustrating the system followed in the Group Method 



of cutting. 



11. Tree seeds sown in patches in old woodland. 



12. Good natural regeneration of Spruce in Manitoba. 



13. A fine young growth of Norway Spruce in the forest garden of 



the "Giessen Forestry School " in Hessen, Germany. 



14. Woodroad, Giessen, Germany. 



15. Old Pine cuttings after being onco burned over. 



16. Showing method of planting in furrows on old hillside pastures. 



Furrows are made in autumn and extend across the slope to 

 prevent washing. These should be made as level as possible- 



17. Showing proper way of cutting pollards and growth after same 



has been cut. 



18. Crowded and open-grown Norway Pine. 



19. Showing Osier Willow Holt partly cut and standing. 



20. Cross-section of stratifying pit for storing seeds during winter, 



covered with inverted sods. 



21. A Danish storehouse for nut seeds, where 5000 bushels of acorns 



and beech nuts are stored each winter. The nuts are put in 

 18 inches deep and turned every day. 



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