About the Book
A Year in the Wonderland of Trees (1924) is Hallam Hawksworth's month-by-month ramble through the American woods, from the first turning leaves of September to the deep summer shade of August. Hawksworth — the pen name of Francis Blake Atkinson — wrote for young 'wood scouts,' mixing real forestry with squirrel banking, tree biographies, and the small dramas of the forest year.
Each chapter belongs to a month, and each month has its business: seed harvest in October, a wood-lot inventory in January, the 'two magicians' of the April rains, and a Fourth-of-July warning about fireworks and forests. The 'Useful Hints for Wood Scouts' scattered through the book made it a scout-troop favorite of the 1920s.
This digital edition presents the complete keyed text of the 1924 edition, organized exactly as Hawksworth planned it: a year in the wonderland, one month at a time.