Getting Acquainted with the Trees

J. Horace (John Horace) Mcfarland

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Getting Acquainted with the Trees

BY

J. HORACE McFARLAND

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author

NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914 Copyright, 1904 By The Outlook Company

Published April, 1904 Reprinted April, 1904 New edition September, 1906 Reprinted August, 1913 March, 1914.

Foreword

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 among which I had walked unseeing far too many years. To pass on, as well as I can, some of the benefit that has come into my own life from this wakened interest in the trees provided by the Creator for the resting of tired brains and the healing of ruffled spirits, as well as for utility, is the reason for gathering together and somewhat extending the papers that have brought me, as they have appeared in the pages of "The Outlook," so many letters of fellowship and appreciation from others who have often seen more clearly and deeply into the woods than I may hope to. Driven out from my desk by weariness sometimes—and as often, I confess, by a rasped temper I would fain hide from display—I have never failed to find rest, and peace, and much to see and to love, among the common and familiar trees, to which I hope these mere hints of some of their features not always seen may send others who also need their silent and beneficent message.

March 17, 1904

J. H. McF.

A Sotry o fSoem Maple

The Growth of the Oak Pines Apples Willows and Poplars The Elm and the Tulip Nut-bearing Trees Some Other Trees Index Botanical Names

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Contents

1 25 49 73 95 131 157 185 235 239

List of Illustrations Silver maple flowers 4 Young leaves of the red maple 7 "The Norway maple breaks into a wonderful bloom" 9 Samaras of the sugar maple 11 A mature sycamore maple 13 Sycamore maple blossoms 15 Flowers of the ash-leaved maple 17 Ash-leaved maples in bloom 19 Striped maple 21 The swamp white oak in winter 29 Flowers of the pin-oak 31 The swamp white oak in early spring 36 An old post-oak 39 A blooming twig of the swamp white oak 41 Acorns of the English oak 47 A lone pine on the Indian river 53 Hemlock Hill, Arnold Arboretum 56 The long-leaved pines of the South 61 Fountain-like effect of the young long-leaved pines 62 An avenue of white pines 67 Cones of the white spruce 71 An apple orchard in winter 78 When the apple trees blossom 81 The Spectabilis crab in bloom 84 Fruits of the wild crab 87 The beauty of a fruiting apple branch 91 Bloom of double-flowering apple 94 A weeping willow in early spring 100 The weeping willow in a storm 103 A pussy-willow in a park 106 Blooms of the white willow 108 A white willow in a characteristic position 112 Clump of young white willows 116 White poplars in spring-time 119 Carolina poplar as a street tree 123 Winter aspect of the cottonwood 126 Lombardy poplar 129 A mature American elm 136 The delicate tracery of the American elm in winter 139 The English elm in winter 143 Winter effect of tulip trees 148 A great liriodendron in bloom 150 Flowers of the liriodendron 153 The wide-spreading black walnut 162 The American sweet chestnut in winter 165 Sweet chestnut blooms 167 The chinquapin 170 A shagbark hickory in bloom 173 The true nut-eater 178 The American beech in winter 180 The witch-hazel 181 Sweet birch in spring 191 Yellow birches 192 Flowers of the spice-bush 194 Leaves and berries of the American holly 195

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