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 



£ver Issued. CLWitK 512 Reproductions 



of Photographs of Trees by Henry Irving, 



the R^esult of Years of Study 



ACCURATE, THOROUGH, READABLE 



THIS exceptionally complete and magnificently 

 lltnstrated work Is meeting with the highest 

 commendation and approral from the numerous 

 Tre« authorities and Forestry students who are 

 acquainted with It. Numbers of our Forestry 

 School Libraries hare already purchased It. It 

 Is pre-eminently a worfc for Nature Lovers, 

 practical Tree Experts and students of Tree Life. 



Analytical tables, diagnoses of families, and 

 numerous illustrations, together with a brief 

 mention of distinctive features, enable the 

 reader to Identify each of the seventy^flve varie- 

 ties of trees that are here fully treated. 



Particular trees have been selected for more 

 detailed dlscTission. For example, branching of 

 the tree is specially illustrated by the Larch, 

 Yew, Horse Chestnut, and others; branching of 

 a shrob and weeping tree, by the Elder and 

 Laburnum; the repair of Injuries, by the Scots 

 Pine; the shape and conduct of a light- 

 demanding tree, by the Larch and Birch; th« 

 degeneration of flowers, by the Sweet Chestnut 

 and Ash. And so on. 



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A UARVEL OF ILLUSTRATION 



Mr. Henry Irving has been engaged for a namber of 

 years in making an exhaustive series of photographs of 

 Trees, a field in which he is acknowledged by leading 

 nature photographers without a peer. The finest resnltt 

 of his work are embodied In Profess6r Groom's 



"TREES AND THEIR LIFE HISTORIES" 

 This book contains over one hundred large platea 

 and four hundred smaller ones, showing each tre« 

 in Its summer and In its winter appearance, 

 also of each tree the trunk and bark, the 

 bud and twig, the leaf spray, the flower 

 spray, and the fruit cluster. Neither pains 

 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 

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