. Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies. had worked along the banks ofthe stream to the ocean and collected the trees andshrubs on the strips of beach nearby, they took thecanoe and paddled up to the mangrove swamp toget fruit, leaves, and wood of this interesting, land-forming tree. No alligators were apparent; theywere evidently expecting them by land. The specimens of wood were each given a numberand arranged in order on narrow shelves against thewall, with the fruits, flowers, and leaves just abovethem. As the collection grew, it was difficult torem
. Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies. had worked along the banks ofthe stream to the ocean and collected the trees andshrubs on the strips of beach nearby, they took thecanoe and paddled up to the mangrove swamp toget fruit, leaves, and wood of this interesting, land-forming tree. No alligators were apparent; theywere evidently expecting them by land. The specimens of wood were each given a numberand arranged in order on narrow shelves against thewall, with the fruits, flowers, and leaves just abovethem. As the collection grew, it was difficult toremember all the specimens and the same tree wassometimes collected twice. William had such a mania for growing things thathe started a nursery in the back of the garden andhad each little tree marked with a stake bearing its106 The Collection of Woods 107 museum number. He said he just wanted to seehow trees looked when they were little. The following list contains the trees they foundin the forest and on the seashore. Some of them,like mahogany and Spanish cedar, are very large. Fig. 37. Making cigar-boxes from Spanish cedar logs in :near Havana. and valuable timber trees, while others are no big-ger than bushes and are not even good for common names used may prove very mislead- 108 Three Young Crusoes ing to people not accustomed to the tropics, but afew, such as holly, sumac, and catalpa, mean thesame as they do in New York and Virginia. Trees of the Forest and Seaside Bayberry. The common bayberry of the east-ern United States grows in the mountains of theWest Indies and the wax-coated fruits have beenused there for the manufacture of candles. Birch. A common tree with thin, reddish bark,which splits into shreds like the birch of the UnitedStates, hence the name. It is used for fence-posts,because it readily takes root and becomes wood is spongy and soft, although white andrather attractive. Blolly. This tree has small leaves, brown, scalybark, and
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