A Practical Handbook oF 



TREES SHRUBS VINES 



AND 



HERBACEOUS 

 PERENNIALS 



John KirloegaarcJ 



Pomnerly Assistant to Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens 



Copenhacen, Denmark 



Latterly Twenty Years in American Forestry 



and Botanical Work 



HARDY AND ORNAMENTAL VARIETIES 



THEIR CHARACTERISTICS, USES 



AND TREATMENT 



"When ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye 

 sticking in a tree. It will be growing when ye're 

 sleeping" 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 



BOSTON: 



WILLIAMS BOOKSTORE'S COMPANY 

 PUBLISHERS 



1916 



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