HOW TO IDENTIFY TREES (Continued) The Hickories, Walnut, and Butternut Tulip Tree, Sweet Gum, Linden, Magnolia, Locust, Catalpa, Dogwood, Mulberry, and Osage Orange

CHAPTER IV

THE STRUCTURE AND REQUIREMENTS OF TREES

CHAPTER V

What trees to plant and how
  Trees for the Lawn
  Trees for the Street
  Trees for Woodland
  Trees for Screening

CHAPTER VI

The care of trees
  Insects Injurious to Trees and How to Combat Them
  Important Insects
  Tree Diseases
  Pruning Trees
  Tree Repair

CHAPTER VII

Forestry
  What Forestry Is and What It Does
  Care of the Woodland

CHAPTER VIII

Our common woods:  Their identification, properties and uses
  Woods Without Pores (Soft woods)
  Woods with Pores (Hard woods)

CHAPTER IX

AN OUTDOOR LESSON ON TREES

INTRODUCTION

A good many popular books on trees have been published in the United States in recent years.  The continually increasing demand for books of this character indicates the growing public interest not only in the trees that we pass in our daily walks, but also in the forest considered as a community of trees, because of its aesthetic and protective value and its usefulness as a source of important economic products.

As a nation, we are thinking more about trees and woods than we were wont to do in the years gone by.  We are growing to love the trees and forests as we turn more and more to outdoor life for recreation and sport.  In our ramblings along shady streets, through grassy parks, over wooded valleys, and in mountain wildernesses we find that much more than formerly we are asking ourselves what are these trees, what are the leaf, flower, twig, wood and habit characteristics which distinguish them from other trees; how large do they grow; under what conditions of soil and climate do they thrive best; what are their enemies and how can they be overcome; what is their value for wood and other useful products; what is their protective value; are they useful for planting along streets and in parks and in regenerating forests; how can the trees of our streets and lawns be preserved and repaired as they begin to fail from old age or other causes?  All these questions and many more relating to the important native and exotic trees commonly found in the states east of the Great Lakes and north of Maryland Mr. Levison has briefly answered in this book.  The author’s training as a forester and his experience as a professional arboriculturist has peculiarly fitted him to speak in an authoritative and interesting way about trees and woods.