Produced by Mark C. Orton, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Names in bold characters are enclosed within plus signs. | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: Frontcover] STATE OF ILLINOIS OTTO KERNER, Governor FOREST TREES OF ILLINOIS HOW TO KNOW THEM A POCKET MANUAL DESCRIBING THEIR MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS Revised by Dr. George D. Fuller, Professor Emeritus of Botany, University of Chicago, Curator of Botany, Illinois State Museum, and State Forester E. E. Nuuttila. (_1st. ed., 1927, by Mattoon, W. R., and Miller, R. B._) _Revised 1955_ DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION DIVISION OF FORESTRY SPRINGFIELD WILLIAM T. LODGE, Director (Printed by Authority of the State of Illinois) TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Ailanthus 54 Alder, black 19 speckled 19 Apple, crab 45 Arbor vitae 7 Ash, black 65 blue 65 green 64 pumpkin 65 red 64 white 64 Aspen, large-tooth 8 quaking 8 Bald cypress 6 Basswood 60 white 60 Beech 22 blue 19 Birch, black 21 river 21 white 20 yellow 21 Black locust 53 Black walnut 11 Bois d'arc 37 Box elder 58 Buckeye, Ohio 59 Buttonwood 44 Butternut 2 Catalpa 66 Cedar, northern white 7 red 7 Cherry, black 50 choke 50 wild red 50 Chestnut 22 Coffee tree, Kentucky 52 Cottonwood 9 swamp 9 Crab, apple 45 Bechtel's 45 prairie 45 sweet 45 Cucumber, magnolia 39 Cypress, bald 6 Dogwood, alternate-leaved 61 flowering 61