Forest Trees and Forest Scenery

by G. Frederick Schwarz

CONTENTS

[I]	Forest Trees	1
	[The Broadleaf Trees]	3
	[The Cone-Bearers]	29
[II]	Forest Adornment	63
[III]	Distribution of American Forests	83
[IV]	Character of the Broadleaf Forests	97
[V]	The Coniferous Forests	116
[VI]	The Artificial Forests of Europe	141

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A River Scene in Florida	[Frontispiece]
	Facing page
Foliage of the White Oak	[8]
Spray of the Sugar Maple	[12]
Spray of the Red Maple	[12]
The Dogwood in Bloom	[22]
Tulip Trees	[26]
Character of the White Pine	[34]
Sugar Pines	[36]
A Pinery in the South	[38]
The Bull Pine in its California Home	[40]
A Silver Fir at Middle Age	[50]
Redwood Forest in California	[58]
Devastation in the Forest	[60]
Where the Sheep Have Been	[62]
A Passageway through Granite Rocks	[64]
Shrubbery and River Birches. New Jersey	[66]
Fern Patch in a Grove of White Birch	[69]
A Yucca in the Chaparral	[78]
Virgin Forest Scene in Florida	[110]
A Group of Conifers. Montana	[116]
Mount Rainier. Washington	[120]
A Thicket of White Firs	[125]
An Open Forest in the Southwest	[130]
A Storm-beaten Veteran	[132]
A German “Selection Forest”	[148]
A “High Forest” of Spruce in Saxony	[158]

FOREST TREES AND
FOREST SCENERY

“One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,

Of moral evil and of good,

Than all the sages can.”

Wordsworth.