FIFTY COMMON TREES OF NEW YORK 

 FORESTRY FOR 4-H CLUB BOYS AND GIRLS 



SECOND YEAR— FOREST APPRECIATION 



J. A. Cope and Gardiner Bump 



Since one-half of the entire land area of New York State is better 

 adapted to growing trees than to any other use, forestry is a vital part 

 of agriculture within the State. 



Work in forestry should appeal to boys and girls because of its outdoor 

 nature and the possibility of combining therewith activities in nature 

 study, camp, and woodcraft. 



Because of the number of years required to grow a crop of wood, the 

 boys and girls, as future land owners, will reap the direct benefits of the 

 principles learned and the work undertaken. 



Boys and girls who have planted 1000 forest trees as the first-year 

 project in forestry are now ready to take up a detailed study of our 

 native forest trees. 



To have a real appreciation of the forest is to know the importance of 

 the forest to agriculture and industry, to have a thorough knowledge 

 of the trees of which the forest is composed, and to know the relative 

 values of these trees in producing crops of timber. The first step, there- 

 fore, in the appreciation of the forest is to become familiar with the 

 various kinds of trees, the individuals of the forest community. They 

 must be met at home, in the forest where they can be found in conditions 

 most natural to their growth. Each kind of tree will be found to have 

 certain characteristics that distinguish it from other trees. No two 

 trees have bark, leaves, or fruit exactly alike. Varying as much as 

 these external characteristics of the tree is the wood, and upon the char- 

 acteristics of that wood depends the use to which it can be put. In 

 growing timber for a definite use or in choosing trees to be cut for a cer- 

 tain purpose, it is important to know what woods can be put to that use 

 or will answer to that purpose. 



Authors" acknowledgements. The descriptive text (pages 10 to 61) covering 

 the tree characters is largely a compilation rather than the result of original investi- 

 gations. Trees in Winter toy Albert Francis Blakeslee and Chester Deacon Jarvis was 

 freely consulted in the matter of (bark characters ; Trees of New York State by H. P. 

 Brown furnished valuable suggestions in the way of uses ; and the recently published 

 Common Trees of New York toy J. S. Illick was followed closely in many particulars. 



The cuts for the book were furnished through the courtesy of W. R. Mattoon of the 

 Forest Service from a set cooperatively published some years ago by the Forestry De- 

 partments of the States of Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. 



In listing- scientific names The Check List of Forest Trees of the United States, Mis- 

 cellaneous Circular 92 of the United iStates Department of Agriculture, was followed. 



