258 
Waste of timber in Western States, 
1, 2. 
Water, large areas flooded with, 42. 
Wild lime-tree, 188. 
Willow-trees—brittle, 153; sap of, 
48; shining, 153; weeping, 153; 
white, 152. 
Winds—facts as to motion of, 59- 
62; forests diminish force of pre- 
vailing, 14; kept in check by 
trees, 45, 46. 
INDEX. 
Winter, some trees warmer than 
others in, 45. 
Wisconsin, fifty thousand acres of 
forest cleared annually, 2. 
Wood, necessary to man, 4. 
Woods, moisture of soil in, 12. 
World, oldest timber in the, 35. 
Yellow wood, 123. 
Yew - trees—American, or ground 
hemlock, 162; English, 162. 
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