TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Tue Forests, page 1. Object of the Report, 2. Uses of the forests ;—form a soul, 3. 
Conduct electricity, 4. Soften the climate, protect from winds, 5. Give beauty to 
acountry, 6. Variety of our forest trees, 9. Use for shade, 10. Furnish ma- 
terials forthe arts, 11. Shipbuilding, 12. The forests wasted, 13. Maple sugar, 
14. Fuel, 14. Continuation and improvement of the forests, 16. Species of trees, 
17. Names little known, 18. Trees for fuel, shipbuilding, 19. Fencing, fur- 
niture, implements, tanning, 20. Improvable lands,21. Rocky hills; marshes, 
22. Thinning and pruning, 23. The principle of pruning; mode, 24. Select- 
ing, 25. Cutting smooth; how soon renewed, 25. Age, 27. Season, 27. Suc- 
cession of forests, 29. Things injurious to a forest : browsing, injudicious prun- 
ing, sea breeze, 31 Upon planting near the sea ; on exposed hills, 32. Strength 
and durability of timber, 33. Buffon’s mode of felling, 34. 
Woody Plants of Massachusetts ; distribution into families and genera ; description 
of a flower and fruit, 37. Figures, 38 Division into families, 39. Plants with 
opposite leaves, 40. Plants with alternate leaves, 41. Division into genera, 42. 
FIRST GENERAL DIVISION. Drcoryteponovs Puanrs, 45. 
Cuapter I. Plants with naked seeds. 
Famity I, Pine Family, 47. Products of the pines, 48. Root; trunk, 49. 
Branches; wood, 50. Leaves, 51. Buds; flower, 52. Fruit, 53. Insects on 
the pines,54 Soil for pines,56. Propagation and culture, 57. Transplanting ; 
division, 59. Secrion Firsr. Pine anp Fir Tribe. Genusl. The Pme. §Sp.1. 
White pine, 60. Sp 2. Pitch pine, 66. Planting with, 71 Sp. 3. Red or Nor- 
way pine, 74. Genus 2. Spruce Sp. 1. Hemlock, 77. Sp. 2. Black or Dou- 
ble Spruce, 81. Sp 3. Single or White Spruce, 84. Genus3. Fir. Sp. 1. Bal- 
sam fir, 85. European fir. Sp. 2. Double balsam fir, 88. Genus 4. Larch. 
Sp. 1. Hacmatack, 89. Planting with larch, 91. Cedar of Lebanon, 95. 
Section Seconp. CypressTribe. Genusd. Arbor Vite Cedar. Sp.1. Ameri- 
can arbor vite, 96. Genus 6. Cedar or Cypress. Sp.1. White cedar, 98. Fence 
of, 100. European cypress, Southern cypress, 101. Genus 7. Jumiper. Sp. 1. 
Red cedar, 102. Cedar apple, 106. Sp. 2. Juniper, 108. Sxrerton Taurep. 
The Yews. Genus 8. Yew, 110. Sp. 1. Ground hemlock, 111. 
Cuaprer I]. Amentaceous Plants. 
Famiry II Oak Family, 113 Genus 1. Oak, 115 Value, 116. Insects on, 
117. Bark, 120. Root, 121 Flowers; fruit, 122. Growth, 123. Species, 124. 
Arrangement, 125. Table of species, 126. Sp. 1. White oak, 127. Sp. 2. 
