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Excerpt from Trees That Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the YearThe Awakening of the Trees Trees that Bloom in Early Spr1ug The American Elm and Its Kin The Maple Family The Willow Family.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art t...

Excerpt from The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America and to Their Uses and CultivationLVIII The Silver Bell Tree and the Sweet Leaf LIX The Ashes and the Fringe Tree LX The Catalpas LXI The Viburnums and the Elders.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgot...

Excerpt from The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living Mollusks, and an Aid to the Identification of Shells Native and ForeignEvery person interested in shells has felt the need Of a man ual Of the shell-bearing animals Of sea and land, comparable to the comprehensive manuals provided for those who wish to study birds or insects or trees. Small hand-books serve as guides to the seashore, but they treat only detac...

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Excerpt from Canadian Trees Worth Knowing The beginner doesn't know exactly how and where to begin. There are great collections of trees here and there. The Arnold Arboretum in Boston is the great dendrological Noah's Ark in this country. It contains almost all the trees, American and foreign, which will grow in that region. The Shaw Botanical Garden at St. Louis is the largest midland assemblage of trees. Parks in various cities bring togeth...

Excerpt from Wild Animals Every Child Should Know: Life Stories and Other True Stories of the Wild Cousins of Domestic Animals and Other Warm-Blooded Quadrupeds The first chapters in this book explain what quadrupeds are closely related. They give a summary of the chief families in each order. In the chapters that follow are grouped to gether by families the big, fierce, beautiful relatives of our domestic animals. About the Publisher Forgo...

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It was late April when I came by. As I looked up into that tree top the sunlight was shining through, and at first I thought I must be dreaming. Instead of buds, I saw what seemed like lighted candles, each with a silken frill, like the recurved petals of an iris, below the tip of flame! I had never seen a tree thus illuminated, and the sight was enchanting. The warm spring air had brought out the hickory buds, with those of other trees, and w...

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Excerpt from The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living Mollusks, and an Aid to the Identification of Shells Native and ForeignEvery person interested in shells has felt the need Of a man ual Of the shell-bearing animals Of sea and land, comparable to the comprehensive manuals provided for those who wish to study birds or insects or trees. Small hand-books serve as guides to the seashore, but they treat only detac...

Excerpt from The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America and to Their Uses and Cultivation VI The Larches I o o 58 VII The Spruces o 63 VIII The Hemlocks I. 72 IX The Firs o 79 X The Big Tree and the Redwood 86 XI The Arbor Vitaes 9i XII The Incense Cedar 94 XIII The Cypresses 96 XIV The Junipers 104 XV The Torreyas ll. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo...

Excerpt from Canadian Trees Worth Knowing The beginner doesn't know exactly how and where to begin. There are great collections of trees here and there. The Arnold Arboretum in Boston is the great dendrological Noah's Ark in this country. It contains almost all the trees, American and foreign, which will grow in that region. The Shaw Botanical Garden at St. Louis is the largest midland assemblage of trees. Parks in various cities bring togeth...

Excerpt from The Book of Useful Plants The world of plants is a wonder world to chil dren. Thegrowing of a plant, from seed to seed, is a wonderful experience. The wheat that makes our bread can trace its family line back to the time when men lived in caves and were wild as the beasts with whom they contended without weapons. Grains and other plants that have ministered for centuries to the comfort and happi ness of the race have long, intere...

Excerpt from Trees That Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year Under each bud is the scar of last year's leaf, and if you look on the ground you are pretty sure to find a dead leaf whose stem fits exactly into that scar. If there are a number of these leaves under the tree, you may feel sure that they fell from the tree last autumn. Look carefully among the leaves, and on the branches for the seeds of this tree...

Excerpt from Among Green Trees: A Guide to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance With Familiar TreesWe now have a half-dozen recent popular books devoted to the trees of the northeastern United States and Canada. These books are well written, well illustrated, and sold at a reasonable price. The aim of each is to describe all the trees, or approximately all, and to Show the general reader how he may learn to know them apart. All this is as it s...