Common Trees 



living thing. It grows as we grow. It pushes upward as 

 we should push upward in life. It spreads its branches out- 

 ward, as we should spread the branches of our minds, broad- 

 ened by experience in life. The tree is a constant lesson to 

 humanity, — a lesson in erectness, in courage, in dignity and 

 in steadfastness. It serves us in thousands of material ways, 

 so should we know it that it may serve us in human ways 

 as a guide and a friend. 



Throughout our great country our future citizens are 

 everywhere widening their acquaintance with trees. Through 

 various organizations, as well as the schools, they are dis- 

 covering the happiness that this knowledge brings. 



This little book will serve as a letter of introduction to the 

 common trees in your yard, on your street, in the woodlot 

 on the edge of the city and in the young forest beyond. You 

 can use it freely and many times. It will give you the knowl- 

 edge that leads to appreciation, and this will lead to enjoy- 

 ment even beyond expectation. 



TREES AND NEW YORK 



By J. R. Simmons, 



Secretary-Forester, New York State Forestry Association 



YOU are about to read a little book the like of which has 

 not been presented to the people of New York; a text 

 in popular form which undertakes as its subject the unit 

 upon which forestry is based, and without which unit in 

 the aggregate of natural resources, New York would never 

 have. been called the Empire State. That unit is the tree. 



If you have never before understood the basic reasons for 

 the great conservation movement that is in progress today 

 in this and other states, or why the leaders in this field have 

 given so great a portion of their time, means and mental 

 and physical strength to this cause, you are about to be 

 enlightened through a medium that goes directly to the un- 

 derlying principle in a scientific and entertaining manner. 

 Here will be found an intimate story in the nature of a life 

 history of every variety of local tree that yields timber, that 

 feeds and shelters a bird, that produces grateful shade for 

 man, or that graces a pleasing landscape. 



The more thoughtful of the people have entered upon a 

 campaign for the perpetuation of forests. The term forests 

 is very broad, but has served the purpose to the extent of 

 developing constructive programs somewhat in advance of 

 a needed popular study of species and their uses. Something 



