Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-09-07
THOUSANDS OF BULLETINS
Every II. S. Student to Get Copy
of "The Trees of Vermont"
$500 Mailed to District Superintendent,
$1,000 In All Printed--BookIet Writ
ten Especially for Use OF ANA
teurs--Its Contents.

Every sunerint erdent Of public schools
in Vermont has received. or will soon,
a copy of a new bulletin on THE Trees
of Vermont" written by G. p. Burns and
c. II. Otis, and put out by the Vermont
Agricultural Experiment station. No
less than $500 copies of the bulletin are
to he sent them, while a total of 2l0O0
copies has been printed Dean j. L. Hills
of the State Agricultural College after
consulting with the state commissioner
of education, decided to put copy Of the
bulletin into tire hands of practically
every school teacher in the State and
every high school student.
The bulletin is probably the most au-
thoritative and comprehensive on the
subject vet compiled. This bulletin is
intended primarily for the use of pupils
i'm our public schools and Of persons not
especially trained in botany" say the
authors in their Introduction. "Foi this
reason the Use Of technical terms has been
avoided whenever possible" Professor
Otis, former curator Of the botanical
garden and arhoretum of the University
Of Michigan. spent several months
collaborating with Professor Burns and
the two are also indebted to the Uni
versity of Michigan for the use of ma
terial in a former bulletin.
Say the authors tthis is evidently meant
for the pupiD under How to study the
Trees: Trees are such familiar objects
that the people who dwell in nearly every
portion of this country see them daily,
Trees give cooling shade in our ranks
and dooryards and along our highways;
they lend their beauty to the landscape
rnli tow : Of tbn1. .a16
many kinds of fruits, some of which
furnish man and the animals of the forest
with food; and they furnish vast
quantities Of lumber for a multitude Of
uses 1t is important then that every
person, whether in the schools or beyond
school age. should become acquainted
with our trees. Most people know few
of the more common trees but are
ignorant of the great wealth of trees Of
various kinds about them Some per-
sons who may have wished 10 learn
more have been hindered for lack of a
teacher and others have been dismayed
by tho very multitude of manuals to
which they have had access.
I'm beginning a study Of trees the stu
dent should be careful to confine him
self to we'll established facts once
started, he should proceed slowly, as
simiatng each now discovery before
seeking another. He should begin with
the trees nearest home and then becom-
ing familiar with these In all their
/ aspects, he should extend his trips afield
/ Not only should he he able to name the
| trees when they are fully clothed in
/ summer Farb but he should know as
/ readily the same trees when only the
bare branches stand snhouetted aGains,
/ the sky if he desires to gain a thorough
/ knowledge of his subject.
THE characters which are used in
! studying the trees are habits, leaves
flowers, fruits, buds, bark, distribution
/ and habitat"
Tie authors present an astounding
amount Of information in the bu' etin
. which consists Of PA solid pages Die
, you know, reader, that there are - diff
! ferent species of willow in the state be
! sides many hyhrids? Eight varieties ~
! hickory? Nine varieties of oak2 Sever
kinds Of maple. including the box elder
! seven different sorts of wild plur ant
. cherry tree?
There are four kinds of pine native OF
practically native to the State and still
found here; three kinds of spruce; min.
kinds Of birch tree, the cork elm, Eng
fish cork elm. slippery elm, weeping o.
Scotch elm, American or white elm.
Besides these and four kinds OF ash
black, white. red and green-there is tn,
red mulberry. yellow poplar or tulip ire
or wildwood, sycamore or buttonwooG
common locust, common horse chestnut
Eastwood, black gum, shadhrush or June
berry and hawthorn and many another.
TH1RTY-sEVEN VARIETIES
The following are listed as Vernon
woods; Red or Norway pine white pine
red spruce. hemlock, tamarack, balsau
tr white cedar bald cypress, sugar ma
pie, white ash, American and white elm
yellow or gray birch. beech, America
aspen or trembling poplar or popIe, shell
balr hickory, Eastwood, red oak whit
hickory, red hickory, cherry or sweet o
black birch. white oak. messy cup oak
American hornheam or blue or waite
beech, cork elm, black or yellow ba rk e.
oak, white or silver maple. black ash
Pennsylvania ash, red maple. paper O
canoe or white birch, black cherry an
sycamore or cottonwood.
The bulletin is. in fact, a small cyclic
pedia of information concerning the tree
of Vermont. and ought to be bound 70
permanent keeping.
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