. Agriculture for southern schools. Fig. 142. — Showing Spreading Form or some Oaks when not crowded catalpa, black locust, osage orange, and mulberry. Postsmade from these trees last for a long time. Cedar makesexcellent posts and is very valuable for making grows slowly and should not be set out on a farm whereapples are grown. The wood of the walnut is very valu-able for furniture. To make shade quickly in the pastures,where beauty is not important, the Cottonwood, chinaberry,and catalpa are suitable. FOREST TREES 213 The trees as friends. — To get all the pleasure possibleout of
. Agriculture for southern schools. Fig. 142. — Showing Spreading Form or some Oaks when not crowded catalpa, black locust, osage orange, and mulberry. Postsmade from these trees last for a long time. Cedar makesexcellent posts and is very valuable for making grows slowly and should not be set out on a farm whereapples are grown. The wood of the walnut is very valu-able for furniture. To make shade quickly in the pastures,where beauty is not important, the Cottonwood, chinaberry,and catalpa are suitable. FOREST TREES 213 The trees as friends. — To get all the pleasure possibleout of life in the country, know and love the trees. Know. — A Walnut Tree them by their leaves (Fig. 139), their branches, their bark,and their seeds. Notice which kinds are found on the dry 214 AGRICULTURE hills and which in the wet bottoms. Observe how theystruggle up toward the light. Notice the difference in theforms of those that stand alone, flooded with sunshine (), and those starved for light in the deep shadow of thecrowded forest. Even in winter the trees are different trees may be recognized in the distanceby the differences in their habits of branching. For ex-ample, notice the continuous central stem in the pine andhickory (Figs. 140 and 141), and observe that in the walnut(Fig. 143) and elm this is usually lost. Exercise. — Compare the leaves in Fig. 139 with the leaves found inthe woods, and write in your notebook the name that corresponds toeach letter. You will find it interesting and instructive to make a mapof the trees growing on a small area of woodland, representing theposition of ea
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