ILLUSTRATIONS
[The Glory of Autumn Trees] Frontispiece FACING PAGE [Three Pignuts, Three Shagbarks, and Two Pecans; Flowering Twig of the Shagbark Hickory] 16 [Black Walnut and Butternut; Twig of Butternut] 17 [Buds and Flowers of the Beech Tree] 32 [Catkins of a Hornbeam and a Birch; Catkins and Acorn Flowers of an Oak] 33 [Leaves, Acorns, and Twigs of the Bur Oak] 48 [The Horizontal Limbs of the Pin Oak Form a Regular Pyramidal Head] 49 [Cone Fruits of a Birch, a Pine, a Magnolia, and a Fir] 64 [Clusters of the Winged Seeds of Hornbeam and White Ash] 65 [The Flowering Dogwood Covers Its Bare Branches with Blossoms in May] 76 [Flowering Dogwood, in Flower and Fruit, the Winter Flower Buds, and Alligator Skin Bark] 77 [We Recognise Birches by their Silky, Tattered Bark] 84 [The Beech Trunk Is Clothed in Smooth, Pale Grey Bark] 85 [The Loose, Stripping Bark Gives Its Name to the Shagbark Hickory] 86 [Bark of Hackberry, Black Birch and Hornbeam] 87 [Warty, Ridged Bark of the Sweet Gum, the Swinging Seed Balls, and Winged Seeds] 90 [Bark and Seed Balls of the Sycamore] 91 [The Lombardy Poplar] 92 [The Live Oak of the South] 93 [Fruiting Branch of a Cockspur Thorn] 96 [Clustered Thorns on Trunk of Honey Locust Tree; Flowers and Foliage of the Black Locust] 97 [Cones of Hemlock and Norway Spruce] 112 [Pine Twig with Cones, and Clustered Staminate Flowers] 113 [Thousands of Little Balsam Firs Supply the Market with Christmas Trees] 114 [Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Outdoor Study] 115 [The Spiny-leaved, Red-berried Holly] 126 [What Would Christmas Be Without Holly Branches and Wreaths for Decoration!] 127 [“The Grizzly Giant,” a Sequoia Over Three Hundred Feet High] 128 [Scaly-leaved Evergreens] 129 [The Opening Buds of the Shagbark Hickory] 144 [Catkins and Leaves of the Trembling Aspen] 145 [Flower Buds, Blossoms, Seeds, and Leaf of the American Elm] 148 [Elm Tree in Bloom] 149 [Buds and Flowers of the Red Maple] 156 [Seeds of the Red Maple] 157 [The Sugar Maple] 176 [Leaves of the Black Willow; Pussy Willow Twigs] 177 [Leaves and Flowers of the Ear-leaved Cucumber Tree] 192 [The Orange-yellow Flower Cups and Squared Leaves of the Tulip Tree] 193 [Flowers, Fruit, and the Three Different Leaf Patterns of the Sassafras Tree] 194 [Waxy Flowers of the Evergreen Magnolia] 195 [Fruits, Leaves, and Flowers of the Basswood Tree] 206 [The Chestnut Tree] 207 [An Old Apple Orchard] 224 [Nothing Tastes as Good as Ripe Apples Picked Right off the Tree!] 225 [Flowers and Fruit of the Wild Black Cherry] 240 [The Delicate, White Flower Clusters of the Serviceberry Tree] 241