| Oaks (many kinds—one sturdy | Willows | |
| old fellow, vital, green, | Catalpas | |
| bushy, five feet thick at the | Persimmons | |
| butt, I sit under every day) | Mountain-ash | |
| Cedars, plenty | Hickories | |
| Tulip trees (Liriodendron, is | Maples, many kinds | |
| of the magnolia family—I | Locusts | |
| have seen it in Michigan | Birches | |
| and southern Illinois, 140 | Dogwood | |
| feet high and 8 feet thick at | Pine | |
| the butt;10 does not trans | the Elm | |
| plant well; best raised from | Chestnut | |
| seeds—the lumbermen call | Linden | |
| it yellow poplar) | Aspen | |
| Sycamores | Spruce | |
| Gum trees, both sweet and sour | Hornbeam | |
| Beeches | Laurel | |
| Black-walnuts | Holly | |
| Sassafras | ||