INDEX. 
Hickory-trees—butternut,100; em- 
blematic character of, 97; mock- 
er nut, 99; pecan nut, 99; pig- 
nut, 98, 99; shellbark, 98; thick 
shellbark, 98. 
Holly-tree, 165. 
Hoop-poles, black ash for, 64. 
Horse-chestnut trees, list of, 133. 
Humidity of atmosphere, effect of 
forests on, 14. 
India, forest-service of, 41, 42. 
Iron-furnaces, 17. 
Tron-wood tree, 146. 
Japan Sophora, 113. 
Juneberry-tree, 139. 
‘* Jonesia Asika,” 33. 
Juniper-tree, 109. 
Lands, treeless, 2. 
Larch -trees—black, or tamarask, 
114; European, 115-117. 
Laurel-trees—American, 166; Car- 
olina, 168; great, 167; rose bay, 
167; sheep, 167. 
Laws—herd and forestry, 15; of 
heat, 55-57. 
Layering, growth from, 215-218. 
Linden-trees — buffalo berry, 113; 
European, 112; Japan Sophora, 
113; sassafras, 118; white, 112. 
Locust-trees—black, or common, 
98; honey, 85-87; rose-flowered, 
89; varieties and uses, 85-89; 
water, 87; yellow, 87. 
Logging in California, 25. 
Logs rafted out of Saginaw dis- 
tricts, 18. 
Lumber — demand for, increasing 
at rate of twenty-five per cent. a 
year, 15; men employed in hand- 
ling, 9. 
Lumber companies, destruction of 
forests by, 2. 
Magnolia - trees — cucumber, 118; 
ear-leaved, or ear-leaved umbrel- 
la, 120; great-leaved, 120; ‘‘ pur- 
purea,” 122; small, sweet bay, 
119; umbrella, 120; yellow cu- 
cumber, 119; yulan, 121. 
Mahogany-tree, 193-196. 
Maple-trees—box-elder, or ash- 
255 
leaved, 79; Jarge-leaved, 80; 
moose-wood, or striped, 79; Nor- 
way, 79; round-leaved, 80, 81; 
soft, 77,78; sugar, 74-77; value 
of, ‘74. 
Medicinal properties of trees of 
United States, 245 et seg. 
“* Miner's Cabin,” 28. 
Moisture increased by forests, 14. 
Mulberry - trees—black, 127; red, 
126; white, 127. 
Murphy’s mill, consumption of 
redwood by, 20-24. 
Nurses, or surplus trees or shrubs, 
238. 
Oak-trees—black, 182; black-jack, 
183; burr, 179; European, 33, 34; 
laurel, 183; live, 183; pin, 182; 
post, 181; red, 182; sap of, 47; 
scarlet,182; Spanish,183; swamp- 
chestnut, 181; ‘‘The Wads- 
worth,” 33; white, 181; willow, 
183. 
Observations on rainfall in Eu- 
rope, 57. 
Orange-trees, golden, 205-209. 
Osage orange-tree, 129, 180. 
i experiments on sap of, 
7. 
Palmyra-tree, 31. 
Papaw-tree, 139. 
Pepperidge-tree, 137. 
Persimmon-tree, date-plum, 126. 
Pine - trees—Austrian, 106; Corsi- 
can,106; gray, or scrub, 103,104; 
loblolly, or Oldfield, 105; pitch, 
105; red,103; Scotch,106; scrub, 
106; stone, 105; table-mountain, 
107; uses and products,101-107; 
white, 102; yellow, 104. 
Plains, Western, may become well- 
watered, 14, 
Planting-trees—suggestions on,and 
directions for, 226-236. 
Poplar-trees—balsam, 149; downy- 
leaved, 148; white, 149. 
Pride of India, 191. 
Pe neation of trees, 210, 211, 226- 
Protection of forests, old system 
will not do, 5, 15. 
