This book will be found very useful, containing careful descriptions of many trees and shrubs, and interesting facts about them.]
QUESTIONS ON THE AMERICAN ELM.
How do the flower-buds differ from the leaf-buds in position and appearance?
What is the arrangement of the leaves?
What other tree that you have studied has this arrangement?
How old is your branch?
Where would you look to see if the flower-cluster had left any mark?
Why is it that several twigs grow near each other, and that then comes a space without any branches?
What buds develop most frequently?
How does this affect the appearance of the tree?