Nature
I—TREES
1. Trees That Are Familiar to Us—Our home varieties: nut-trees, foliage-trees, evergreens, etc.; fruit-trees and their care.
2. Trees That Are Strange to Us—Mahogany and other Central and South American trees; teakwood; cedars of Lebanon; redwoods of California.
3. The Art of Forestry—Need of forestry; history of the movement; the United States Department.
4. The Tree in Sentiment and Literature—Famous trees (the Charter Oak, King Arthur's Oak, the Washington Elm, etc.); poetry about trees; Tennyson's trees; Shakespeare's trees.
Readings—W. C. Bryant: A Forest Hymn (in part). Longfellow: Evangeline (opening lines). Whittier: The Palm Tree.
Books to Consult—Julia E. Rogers: The Tree Book. What is Forestry? (U. S. Div. Forestry Bulletin 5). G. Pinchot: A Primer of Forestry (U. S. Dept. Agri. Farmers' Bulletin 173, 358).
There are magazines which may easily be consulted for subjects for discussion on landscape-gardening, the grouping of shrubs and trees, and similar themes. There may be a valuable paper on Insects Which Destroy Our Trees, and How to Deal with Them; the Agricultural Department at Washington will gladly send pamphlets which will be of great use. There might also be a talk on The Lumberman and the Government, and another on The Paper Manufacturer and the Government, and a third on Forestry as a Profession for Young Men.