AMERICAN FORESTRY'S ADVERTISERS 



Adopted by th« Cornell Torestry 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.. r.L.S. 



(Cftntftb. et Oxor\.) 



The Most Superbly Illustrated Tree Book 



Ever Issued. CWitK 512 Reproductions 



of Photographs of Trees by Henry Irving, 



the Result of Years of Study 



AOCTTRATE, THOEOUGH, KEADABLE 



THIS exceptionally complete and magnificently 

 llhistrated work 1b meeting with the highest 

 eommendatlon and approval from the nnmerons 

 Tree authorities and Forestry students who are 

 acquainted with It. Numbers of our Foreatry 

 School Libraries bare already purchased It. It 

 Is pre-eminently a work for Nature Lovers, 

 practical Tree Experts and students of Tree Life. 



Analytical tables, diagnoses of families, and 

 numerous lUastrations, together with a brief 

 mention ot distinctive features, enable the 

 reader to identify each of the seventy-flve varie- 

 ties ot trees that are here fully treated. 



Particular trees have been selected for more 

 detailed discnssion. For example, branching of 

 the tree Is speciolly illustrated by the Larch, 

 Yew, Horse Chestnut, and others; branching of 

 a shmb and weeping tree, by the Elder and 

 Laburnum; tlje repair of injuries, by the Scots 

 Pine; the shape and conduct of a light- 

 demanding tree, by the Larch and Birch; the 

 degeneration of Bowers, by the Sweet Chestnut 

 and Ash. And so on. silk cloth and gold. 



Price. $10.00 Net. Sent on Approval 



LET US SEND YOU THIS VOLUME WITH THE 

 UNDERSTANDING that should it fail to substantiate 

 all our claims, you may return it to us by Express Collect. 

 We will in this case refund you the full amount of 

 remittance upon the arrival of the volume in good 

 condition. 



CASSELL & COMPANY 



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Mr. Henry Irving has been engaged for a number of 

 years in making an exhaustive series of photographs of 

 Trees, a field in which he Is acknowledged by leadlne 

 nature photographers without a peer. The finest results 

 of his work are eml>odled In Professor Groom's 

 "TREES AND THEIE LIFE HISTOBIES" 

 This book contains over one hundred large platee 

 and four hundred smaller ones, showing each tree 

 in Its summer and In its winter appearance, 

 also of each tree the trunk and bark, the 

 bud and twig, the leaf spray, the Bower 

 spray, and the fruit cluster. Neither paina 

 nor expense have been spared to make 

 the Illustrations, as they have never 

 before been done, complete, typical, ^ 



and true to nature. ^ 



The work is a large Octavo, ^ 



printed with great care on the ,;>J^ 



finest quality surface paper 

 and strongly bound In green . eg 



^ Gentlemen: 



Find enclosed $10.00 

 (check, money order, or 

 currency), for which please 

 send me, carriage paid, 1 copy 

 of'TEBBS ANDTHDIR LIFB 

 HISTORIES," by Professor 

 Percy Groom. I reserve the privi- 

 lege of returning the volume to 

 you if unsatisfactory, and If I shonld, 

 yo» agree to refund roe at once the 

 full amount of my remittance. 



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