72 The Ottawa Naturalist [July 



REVIEW 



The Tree Book, a Popular Guide to a Knowledge of 

 the Trees of North America and their Uses and Culti- 

 vation. By Julia Ellen Rogers, with sixteen plates in color and 

 one hundred and sixty in black-and-white from photographs by 

 A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, pp. 

 589, $3.00. 



Ranging from Dr. Sargent's monumental work to hastily 

 prepared books to supply the demand for Nature Study liter- 

 ature so much has been printed about trees during recent 

 years that where a single book is to be purchased it is difficult 

 to decide upon the one to buy. If the purely technical works 

 he excluded it may be safely said that none approaches "The 

 Tree Book" for general use. Profusely illustrated, printed 

 on paper of the best quality and full of useful information, 

 popular and scientific descriptions have been combined in such 

 a manner that one familiar with all our trees w^ill find almost as 

 much in it that is new and interesting as will the school-boy 

 who is beginning the study of trees. The first four hundred 

 and fifty large quarto pages deal with "How to Know the Trees" 

 Beginning with the pines and ending with the irburnums and 

 elders, every family being prefaced by a key to the genera, 

 each species is described, and following its description is a mass 

 of information which includes a detailed account of all the known 

 uses to which any part of the tree is put. Part II deals with 

 "Forestry", Part III with "The Uses of Wood", and Part IV 

 with "The Life of the Trees". An exhaustive index com])letes a 

 volume which everyone, even remotely interested in forest trees, 

 should own and studv. 



The delay in publishing this number of The Naturalist is 

 due to the illness and absence from Ottawa of The Editor. 



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