The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-09
BULLETIN FOR
SCHOOL STUDENTS
Twenty-Five Copies of The
Trees of Vermont Have
Just Been Issued
is A CYCLOPEDIA
OF INFORMATION
Persons Who Have Not Made a Study
of the Subject Will Be Surprised to
Find What a Large Variety of Trees
There Are in the State.

There Are in the State.
Every superintendent of public
schools in Vermont has received, or will
soon, copy of a new bulletin on The
Trees of Vermont, written by G.. p.
Burns and G. H. Otis, and put out by
the Vermont Agricultural Experiment
station. No less than $500 copies of
the bulletin are TO be sent them, while
a total of p 900 copies has been printed
Dean j. l.. Hills of the State Agricul-
tural college, after consulting with the
state commissioner of education, de-
cided to put a copy of the bulletin into
the hands of practically every school
teacher in the state, and every high
school student.
The bulletin is probably the most
authoritative and comprehensive on the
subject, yet compiled. "This bulletin
is intended primarily for the use of pu-
pills in our public schools and of per
sons not especially trained in botany, -
says the authors in their introduction.
:. For this reason the use of technical
terms has been avoided whenever posi-
BILE I" Professor Otis, former curator of
the University of Michigan, spent
several months collaborating with Pro-
fessor Burns and the two are also in
debted to the University of Michigan
for the use Of material in former
bulletin.
Say the authors (this is evidently
meant for the pupil under How to
Study the Trees: "Trees are such ia
I, Al -
dwell in nearly every portion of this
country see them daily. Trees give cool
ing shade in our parks and dooryards
and along our highways; they lend
their beauty to the landscape and re-
lieve it of monotony; they yield 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 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 igno-
rant of the great wealth of trees of
various kinds about them. Some per
sons who may have wished to learn
more have been hindered for lack of a
teacher and others have beel dismayed
by the very multitude of manuals to
which they have had access.
In beginning a study of trees the
student should be careful to confine
himself to well established facts Once
started, he should proceed slowly, as
similating each new discovery before
seeking another. He should begin with
the trees nearest home an then becom-
ing familiar with these in all their
aspects, he should extend lis trips afield.
Not only should he be abb to name the
trees when they are fully clothed in
summer garb, but he should know as
readily the same trees when only the
bare branches stand sillouetted against
the sky if he desires to gain thorough
knowledge of his subject
''The characters which are used in
studying the trees ar1 habits, leaves,
flowers, fruits, buds, Lark, distribution
and habitat.
The authors present an astounding
amount of information in the bulletin,
which consists of pa solid pages. Did
you know, reader, that there are % diff
ferent species of willow in the state,
besides many hybrids? Eight varieties
of hickory? Nine varieties of oak?
Seven kinds Of maple, Including the
box elder2 Eeven different sorts of wild
plum and cherry tree2
There are four kinds Of pine native or
practically native to the state and still
found here; three kinds of spruce; nine
kinds of birch tree, the cork elm, Eng
fish cork elm, slippery elm, weeping or
Scotch elm, American or white elm.
Besides these and four kinds of ash
black, white, red and green-there is
the red mulberry, yellow poplar or tu-
lip tree or whitewood, sycamore or but
tOnwood, common locust, common horse
chestnut, Eastwood, black gum, shad-
brush or Juneberry and hawthorn and
many another.
The following are listed as Vermont
woods: Red or Norway pine, white
pine, red spruce, hemlock, tamarack,
balsam fir, white cedar, bald cypress,
sugar maple, white ash, American and
white elm, yellow or gray birch, beech,
American aspen or trembling poplar or
poplc, shellbark hickory, Eastwood, red
oak, white hickory, red hickory, cherry
or sweet or black birch, white oak,
moss-cup oak, American horn-beam or
blue or water beech, cork elm, black or
yellow barked oak, white or silver ma
pie, black ash, Pennsylvania ash, red
maple, paper or canoe or white birch,
black cherry and sycamore or button
wood.
The bulletin is, in fact, n small cyclic
pedia of information concerning the
trees of Vermont, and ought to be bound
for permanent keeping.