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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry221916amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT BY ERISTOW ADAMS FAIRIES OF THE WOODS ■HfT^B LONG with the maple, the lumbermen in ^tM^^S^ the North woods cut beech and birch trees y ^"^ yP and the hemlocks, since all of these are /jlBB^^ likely to grow together and to be lumbered SS;jB&^^ together. This forest, as we have seen, ^»^ is one of great beauty, especially in the fall, and a large part of it is all of the same age and all of the same height. A man in an aeroplane flying over the tops of the woods, especially in the fall, would see a pine mice and white-footed mice. On still nights the voices of the little creatures of the wood can be heard on all sides, from the great cry of the homed owl to the twitterings of the little birds half-awakened from sleep but still drowsy, and the tiny squeakings of young mice in the hollow logs. iROM the ground to the very tips of the trees there is a succession of growths of mosses and lichens in colors of soft grey, and green, and lavender, and
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^""'"' "-' "" ••-■" '^'"■-' l-AIRIES OF FACT-CAN YOU FIND THEM? Besides Ihe four fairies of romamc ihere are eight tiny living creatures-fairies of fact—of the gr.nniil, the trees and the air in this picture. Can you find them all ? succession of plains, and hills, and valleys carpeted with the most wonderful colors, with here and there a few dark, tall pine trees with their heads sticking, like little islands, above the rest. Here and there will be deep holes in this layer of trees, and these would seem to be fringed with a darker green, where spruce, or arbor vitae, or tamarack grow around the edge of lake or swamp. BETWEEN the ground itself and the topmost twigs— which are all that the aeroplane fiyer would see, there is a rich and varied life. Many birds build their nests in these trees; squirrels have their homes; and in the ground beneath there will be frogs and chipmunks, 218 even a brilliant red. The granite rocks on the ground are spread over with these mosses so that their color blends with that of the trees. In the shadier places the waxy white Indian pipes grow in their season, the jack-in- the-pulpit, and the moccasin flower. Toadstools and mushroom growths vary in shape and color from masses like carved ivory, as delicate as coral, to tiny, round- headed "toadstools" of most startling red and orange. When the woods are cut, many of these little fairy-like forms are likely to be torn up and destroyed—not only the homes of the birds and squirrels, but the homes of crea- tures so small that we cannot see them. Yet man needs the lumber to go into homes for men, and to be put to his use in many other ways.

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