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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