1. Make as long a list as you can of trees that grow in your neighborhood. Be sure that you spell all the names correctly.

How many of these trees can you recognize when the leaves are on? How many do you know in winter?

2. Divide the trees in your list into two classes, evergreen trees and those that lose their leaves in winter, or deciduous trees.

3. What two sorts of evergreen trees are named in the poem The Voice of Spring? See if you cannot divide some of the kinds of evergreens into smaller classes. There are probably several kinds of pine trees, at least, in your neighborhood.

4. Deciduous trees have many uses. For example, some are valued for shade and others for fruit or for ornament. Divide the kinds of deciduous trees that you know into classes according to their uses.

Now divide as many of these kinds of deciduous trees as you can into smaller groups. You may know of different kinds of apple trees or oak trees, for example.

5. Now make an outline, or table, showing clearly how you have classified trees. Use Roman numerals to mark the largest classes, Arabic numerals or figures, for the next smaller classes, small letters for the divisions of these classes, and figures enclosed in parentheses for still smaller classes if there are any; thus:

I. Deciduous Trees

1. Shade Trees.

a. Maple.

(1) Hard.

(2) Soft.

b. Elm.

c. Oak.

(1)-----------

(2) -----------

(3) -----------

2. ----------a. -----------

(1) -----------

(2)-----------

(3) ----------b. ----------c. -----------

3. a. ----------b. ----------c. -------------

II. Evergreen Trees.

1. ----------a. ----------b. -------------

2. -------------

3. -------------

4. -------------