AMERICAN FORESTRY'S ADVERTISERS 



Adopted by the Cornell Forestry School 



Every Forestry Library Should Own at Least One Copy of 



Trees and 

 Their Life Histories 



By PROFESSOR PERCY A. GROOM. M.A.. D.S.C.. F.L.S. 



(Cantab, et Oxon.) 



The Most Superbly Illustrated Tree Book 



Ever Issued, d With 512 Reproductions 



of Photographs of Trees by Henry Irving, 



the R.esult of Years of Study 



ACCTJEATE, THOROUGH, READABLE A MARVEL OF ILLUSTRATION 



THIS exceptionally complete and magnlflcently Mr. Henry Irving has been engaged for a number of 



illustrated work Is meeting with the highest years in making an exhaustive series of photographs of 



commendation and approval from the numerous Trees, a field in which he is acknowledged by leading 



Tree authorities and Forestry students who are nature photographers without a peer. The finest results 



acquainted with It. Numbers of our Forestry of his work are embodied in Professor Groom's 

 School Libraries have already purchased It. It "TREES AND THEIR LIFE HISTORIES" 



is pre-eminently a work for Nature Lovers, 

 practical Tree Experts and students of Tree Life. "^^^ book contains over one hundred large plates 



Analytical tables, diagnoses of families, and ^°'^ ^^^^ hundred smaller ones, showing eacU^lree 



numerous illustrations, together with a brief 'o 'ts summer and in its winter appearance, 



mention of distinctive features, enable the "'''<' "' <!ach tree the trunk and bark, the X ^* 



reader to identify each of the Beventj»-flve varle- bud and twig, the leaf spray, the flower 



ties of trees that are here fully treated, spray, and the fruit cluster. Neither pains 



Particular trees have been selected for more nor expense have been spared to make 



detailed discussion. For example, branching of the illustrations, as tliey have never 



the tree is specially Illustrated by the Larch, before been done, complete typical O n m .^ 



Yew, Horse Chestnut, and others; branching of ^^^ (^ue to nature typical, ^ Cassell & 



a shrub and weeping tree, by the Elder and m „„.i, .„ „ ' , „ » ,^ Company, 



Laburnum; the repair of Injuries, by the Scots „,r;% ,.^ "^^ °"''*™' <? «-45 East 



Pine; the shape and conduct of a light- Pr'nted with great care on the ^ jg,^ „ 



demanding tree, by the Larch and Birch; the '""=^' quality surface paper Cj m.™ v 



degeneration of flowers, by the Sweet Chestnut aod strongly bound in green . t, '' 



and Ash. And so on. silk cloth and gold. N>* 



<■ Gentlemen: 



Price. $10.00 Net. Sent on Approval J> p,„a enclosed $10.00 



LET US SEND YOU THIS VOLUME WITH THE x <"=''"': °"«'"^5;,<>^'Jf • »' 



UNDERSTANDING that should it fail to substantiate / .,7Z:7J^Z:^TiZl 



all our claims, you may return it to us by Express Collect. '5^ of'TBBES AND their life 



We will in this case refund you the full amount of <_° histories," by Professor 



remittance upon the arrival of the volume in good ,<? Percy Groom, i reserve the privi- 



COndition. 2^ lege of returning the volume to 



you if unsatisfactory, and if I should, 

 you agree to refund me at once the 

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