Getting Acquainted with the Trees

These sketches are, I fear, very unscientific and unsystematic. They record the growth of my own interest and information, as I have recently observed and enjoyed the trees amon...

Of the Japanese maples--their leaves seemingly a showing of the ingenuity of these Yankees of the Orient, in their twists of form and depths of odd color--I could tell a tale, b...

I wonder how many of my readers realize that an exquisite bit of real hemlock forest lies not five miles from Boston Common? At the Arnold Arboretum, that noble collection of tr...

The curious story of "Johnny Appleseed" is given us by historians, who tell us of this semi-religious enthusiast who roamed barefoot over the wilds of Ohio and Indiana a century...

The poplars and the willows are properly considered together, for together they form the botanical world family of the _Salicaceæ_. Many characteristics of bloom and growth, of...

The liriodendron is more fortunate than some other trees, for it has several points of attractiveness. Its stature and its structure are alike notable, its foliage entirely uniq...

Of the hazelnut or filbert, I know nothing from the tree side, but I cannot avoid mentioning another botanically unrelated so-called hazel--the witch-hazel. This small tree is k...

My friend Professor Bailey says _Platanus occidentalis_, which is the truly right name of this tree, has no title to the term sycamore; it is properly, as his Cyclopedia gives i...

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