Trees Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year

Robins come to our cherry trees in June, and they hunt for our strawberries under the green leaves. The blackberries come on, and the raspberries, and currants. The birds look a...

I have heard my grandfather tell how the early settlers in Ohio cleared the rich bottom land along the rivers. The great trees that had grown, undisturbed, for centuries, were t...

It is good fun to lie under a maple tree, and watch the seeds as they fall. If the wind is strong, they shower down like rain. Each key separates from its mate, and as it lets g...

Let us begin our study with the maples, whose winged seeds every child knows. From the silver maple, whose seeds are dry before the first of June, there is a procession of ripen...

The weeping habit gives us some strange tree forms. The Camperdown elm forms a shady summer-house on many a lawn by arching limbs which droop to the ground on all sides of the m...

Among the fine, feathery leaves that are so beautiful and light that they give great beauty to the tree tops are those of the honey locust. These leaves are of the feather type,...

When we hear any one speak of annual-fruited and biennial-fruited oaks, we know that the White Oak and Black Oak Groups are meant. If you see an oak tree whose leaves are cut in...

The cones of the bald cypress are globular, and about the size of an olive. By them the tree declares its relationship to the needle-leaved evergreens. The wood is light and eas...

In contrast with its umbrellas of red leaves are the scarlet berry clusters of the flowering dogwood. This tree has the habit of snuggling up against the trunk of large forest t...

The Kentucky coffee tree is the coarsest member of the locust family in our woods. Its pods are thick and short, and the seeds inside are as large as hazel nuts. In the story of...

The one-leaved nut pine seems to belong with the spruces and firs, and other single-leaved evergreens, but there are frequently two leaves in the bundle, and there is a little s...

The sap of pine trees is a liquid called _resin_. The pine forests of the South are rich stores of this resin, which we call also pitch. The crude liquid drained from these tree...

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 T...

A. Leaves simple. B. Bloom before the leaves open; seeds ripe in May. C. Flowers red; leaves pale beneath, with three triangular lobes. Red Maple. CC. Flowers greenish; leaves p...