CONTENTS
Julia Ellen Rogers
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How to Know the Trees
3
AUTUMN STUDIES
The Nut Trees:
The Shagbark Hickories
9
The Disappointing Hickories
12
The Black Walnut
16
The Butternut
18
The English Walnut
19
The Chestnut and Chinquapin
22
The Beech
26
The Witch Hazel
29
The Oak Family
33
The White Oak Group:
The White Oak
37
The Bur or Mossy-cup Oak
39
The Live Oak
41
The Post Oak
44
The Swamp White Oak
45
The Chestnut Oak
46
The Black Oak Group:
The Black Oak
47
The Red Oak
50
The Scarlet Oak
51
The Pin Oak
52
The Willow Oak
54
Trees with Winged Seeds
55
Tree Seeds that have Parachutes
62
The Autumn Berries in the Woods
64
The Changing Colour of the Autumn Woods
74
WINTER STUDIES
Trees We Know by Their Bark
83
Trees We Know by Their Shapes
93
Trees We Know by Their Thorns
98
The Needle-leaved Evergreens
101
The Five-leaved Soft Pines
108
The White Pine
109
The Great Sugar Pine
112
The Nut Pines
114
The Hard Pines
118
The Southern Pitch Pines
119
The Longleaf Pine
119
The Shortleaf Pine
121
The Cuban Pine
123
The Loblolly Pine
124
The Northern Pitch Pines
125
The Cedars, White and Red
127
Two Conifers Not Evergreen
131
The Larches
131
The Bald Cypress
134
The Hollies
136
The Burning Bush
139
SPRING STUDIES
The Awakening of the Trees
143
Trees that Bloom in Early Spring
146
The American Elm and Its Kin
150
The Maple Family
154
The Willow Family
163
Why Trees Need Leaves
169
Leaves of All Shapes and Sizes
173
SUMMER STUDIES
Trees with the Largest Flowers
183
Trees Most Showy in Bloom
189
Trees that Bloom in Midsummer
192
The Early Berries in the Woods
197
The Sassafras
200
The Ash Family
203
The Horse-chestnut and the Buckeyes
208
The Buckeyes
211
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