. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. s A PRniER OF FORESTRY. Sg^ been either long delayed or wholly impossible. (See PL I.) The forest is as beautiful as it is useful. The old fairy tales which spoke of it as a terrible place are wrong. No one can really know the forest without feeling the gen- tle influence of one of the kindliest and strongest parts a^ s^^iSr ^ ' ^ ^*T>L-i of nature. From every point /^ : 'S'l' .;\i4 of view it is one of the most helpful friends of man. Per- haps no other natural agent has done so much for the human race and has been so recklessly used
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. s A PRniER OF FORESTRY. Sg^ been either long delayed or wholly impossible. (See PL I.) The forest is as beautiful as it is useful. The old fairy tales which spoke of it as a terrible place are wrong. No one can really know the forest without feeling the gen- tle influence of one of the kindliest and strongest parts a^ s^^iSr ^ ' ^ ^*T>L-i of nature. From every point /^ : 'S'l' .;\i4 of view it is one of the most helpful friends of man. Per- haps no other natural agent has done so much for the human race and has been so recklessly used and so little understood. THE PARTS OF A TREE. In order rightly to under- stand the forest, something must first be known about the units of which it is made up. A tree, then, is a woody plant growing up from the ground usually with a single stem. (See fig. 1.) It con- sists of three parts: First, the roots, which extend into the ground to a depth of 3 or 4 feet, or still farther when the soil is not too hard and 'they do not find moisture enongh near the surface. (See figs. 2, 3, and Pis. II, III.) They hold the tree in place,. Pig. 1.—, stem, aud trowii (if a young Sbellbark Hickory. Mil- ford, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Division of Forestry. Washington : G. P. O.
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