INDEX. 
Adirondacks, only forest left in 
state of New York, 3. 
Ailanthus, or tree of heaven, 131. 
Air—forests retard dry currents of, 
18; Pacific currents of, 12. 
Apple - tree— common, 202-204; 
cultivation of, 203, 204. 
Arbor vite, American, 160. 
Ash - trees— American flowering, 
69; black, 66; blue, 65; green, 
67; European,67; mountain, 67— 
69; red, 66; white, 64; uses of, 
63-69. 
Aspen-trees—A merican, 148; large, 
148. 
Atmosphere, facts as to motion of, 
58-62. 
Attributes of trees, 37, 38. 
Australia, change of climate in,14. 
Axemen, 21, 22. 
Banyan-tree, 30, 31. 
Baobab-tree, 28. 
Barrenness caused by denudation 
of forests, 3. 
Bavaria, rainfall in, 43. 
Berberry — common, 184; holly- 
rik 185; used for hedging, 
184. 
Birch-trees—amount of sap in, 51, 
52; black,96; canoe, 96; red,96; 
remembrances, sweet and bitter, 
connected with, 95; white, 96; 
yellow, 96. 
Bites, cedran-tree antidote for poi- 
sonous, 109, 110. 
Black gum, 137. 
Bow-wood, or osage orange, 129, 
480. 
Box-elder, 93, 94. 
Box-tree, 164. 
Bryant on growth of trees, 7. 
Buckeye-trees—edible, 135; horse- 
chestnut, 188; Ohio, 1384; red, 
184; sweet, 134. 
Buckthorn, 187. 
Budding, methods of, 218-220, 
Buffalo berry tree, 113. 
Butternut-trees, 72. 
Buttonwood-tree, 147. 
California, logging in, 20-26. 
Cass River, logs rafted out of, 18. 
Catalpa-tree, 141. 
Cedar-trees, 31; cedran, 109, 110; 
juniper,109; red,109; white, 108. 
Cedran-tree, antidote for poison- 
ous bites, 109, 110. 
‘Charter Oak,” 31. 
Cherry-trees—wild black,150; wild 
red, 151. 
Chestnut - trees — ‘‘ Castagna di 
Cento Cavalla,” 29; chincapin, 
ae ; planting and thinning, 90, 
Chincapin-trees, 91, 92. 
Civilization, trees essential to, 4. 
ae influence of trees on, 41- 
Cocoanut-trees, 31. 
Congress should protect forests, 5. 
Coniferse of Upper California, 27. 
Corn-crop, effects of shelter-belts 
on, 59-61. 
Corporations—Congress squanders 
large tracts of public forest-land 
upon, 6; destroy forests and 
stake the country barren, 2, 20- 
Countries become barren and de- 
populated through lose of for- 
ests, 2, 3. 
