Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: Untitled photograph by Mr A J Relph of trees by a creek, [65].
• Poetry: 'Verses Selected from "On Planting a Tree at Inverara"' by James Russell Lowell (q.v.) [65]; 'The Holly Tree' by English author Robert Southey (q.v.) with (unattributed) illustration: 'Leaves and Fruit of the Holly Tree', 68-69; 'A Brook's Complaint' by Charles Warren Hawkins with photograph: 'The Brook' from The Australasian, 78-79; 'Verses for Arbor Day' comprising four extracts: 'Nature' by William Wordsworth (q.v.), 'A Brook' by William Shakespeare (q.v.), 'Like to Like' by Johann Goethe (q.v.) and 'Working With God' (unattributed) 80.
• Fiction: 'The Longevity of Trees' from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by American essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes (q.v.) 67-68.
• Non-Fiction: 'Why We Should Plant Trees' (unattributed) piece containing extracts from the writing of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller (q.v.), 66-67; 'Forestry' (unattributed) 70-71; 'Concerning the Age of Trees' (unattributed) with two (unattributed) illustrations: 'A British Oak, Planted by Lady Loch, in the Botanical Gardens, 1889' photograph and 'Sequoia Gigantea, Yosemite Valley, California, USA' 73-75; 'Some Australian Leafless Trees' by G. H. Adcock of the Agricultural Dept, Victoria with three (unattributed) illustrations: 'Phyllodium [and] Leaflets', 'Foliage (Branchlets) of the Sheoak Tree' and 'Fruit of the Sheoak' 75-78.
• Prose: 'A Japanese Memorial' (unattributed) with illustration: 'Iyeyasu' from The Story of Japan, 69-70; 'Plants and Flowers' by John Ruskin (q.v.) with (unattributed) photograph: 'A Ferny Dell' 79-80.
• Supplement: Three songs: 'Bright are the Glories' words by J. Ballantyne and music by S. Webbe, 'God Bless the Prince of Wales' by Brinley Richards and 'Sing for the Oak Tree' by Mary Howitt, unnumbered.