A Year in the Wonderland of Trees

Twelve months in the woods — why leaves turn, how squirrels bank their acorns, what the winds plant and the April rains conjure — nature writing for young wood scouts, one month at a time.

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September

10 pages in this part of Wonderland of Trees.

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September

As is now well known to birds and men, leaves grow on trees. Yet I shouldn't be surprised if there are a good many people who don't know…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: State

I don't want you to think that there's nothing being done about it; for a great deal is being done about it by the National and State…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: Old-Field

For example, in what are known as the "pine barrens" in the South -- wretched soil, too poor for ordinary crops -- what is known as…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: Trees

A COLOR INDEX TO THE ART GALLERY IN THE AUTUMN WOODS Trees have their characteristic autumn colors. These colors, together with the Picture…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: White

Pale or Rusty Yellow: The Hickories, Basswood; Silver, Norway, and Ash-Leaved Maples; Common, Honey, and Clammy Locusts; Mountain-Ash…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: Scarlet

Scarlet: Scarlet Oak, Sour-Gum, Black Haw, Sorrel Tree. Brown: American Elm, Buttonwood; White, Red, Blue, and Black Ashes. Many of the…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: Take

Take the shapes alone. Not only is there the great variety which distinguishes different families of leaves from one another -- think of…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: Sassafras

Take the leaves of the Sassafras, for example. You'll find on the very same tree -- on the very same twig, often -- a three-lobed leaf…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: Treeland

And what fun it is to learn to know the trees by their leaves and to use these "calling-cards" of theirs for introduction to all the…

When the Leaves Begin to Turn: September: Pictured

But if we had our leaf pictures arranged according to form, regardless of family connections,--in other words a Pictured Index, arranged on…

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