""'A beautiful book of rare merit." 



Among Green Trees 



By JULIA ELLEN ROGERS. 

 200 illustrations, Piiotogravures and Half-tones, S3. 00 



A Qoidc to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance with Familiar Trees. 

 THE VOlvUME IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS I 

 Part I. Outdoor studies with trees. The nature-study slde« 

 Part II. The life of trees. The physiological side. 

 Part III. The cultivation of trees. The practical side. 



Part IV. The i^inds of trees. The systematic side. 



One of the banfisomest of tbe nature books of the fall 

 season— a volume attractive enough in every way to be 

 also considered a holiday gift book— Is "Among Green 

 Trees," by Julia Ellen Ro.srers. It is, aa the subtiUe 

 sets forth: "A Guide to Pleasant, Profitable Acquain- 

 taaoe with Familiar Trees." The dedication is inter- 

 esting and is: 



To my father and mothei', Daniel Parrand Rogers and 

 Ruth Liewellyn Rogers, pioneers of the treeless prairie, 

 v.'ho planted feeed and sapling, who tolled and hoped 

 and waited to mahe for their children a home among 

 green trees. 



The contents are both entertaining and valuable for 

 their facts. But qaito as interesting as the textaro the 

 Illustrations. Those consist of full-page photogravures 

 of entire trees, half-tones of the trunks, and text draw- 

 «ngs in liue. The trees are In full foliage, the individ- 

 uals selected are leaders of their kind, and the photog- 

 rapher knew an artistic composition when he saw it. 

 The result is that many of the photogravures are satis- 

 factory from the artistic standpoint.— 2'Ae Chicago Inter 



It Is doubtful If one can find a handsomer book than 

 "Among Green Trees," written by Julia Ellen Rogers 

 of Ithaca, N. Y., and published by A. W. Mumford of 

 Chicago. This book, in green and gold, contains twenty- 

 fine full-page photogravures of trees, with many smaller 

 halftones illustrative ot bark, leaf and .seed. The trees 

 cliosen are typical ones, the selections being in each 

 Instance of a well-nigh perfect plant. 



Miss Rogers takes her reivlers into the woods in 

 March, when the red maple begins to glow, and teaches 

 one by one the life histories of the forest giants. There 

 is nothing which has to do with the tree, from the top- 

 most leaf to the last and tiniest rootlet in the dark 

 ground, of which the author does not tell. The beautl- 

 lul illustra'tions are of the greatest assistance in the 

 understanding of tiie nature law.s of which the writer 

 tells. There is much beside mere description of tree 

 life in this book of trees. Full and complete Instruc- 

 tions for the cultivation of trees of all kinds are given. 

 The enemies of the trees, fungus growth and insects, 

 ate considered at leugiii, and the best means of combat- 

 ing them are explained to him who would undertake 

 tree culture. 



If the westerner who has never been East wishes to 

 know why it is that the New Englander, trausplanted 

 to the prairies, sometimes expresses a yecriiing desire 

 "to see a tree," let him look at the frontispiece of 



"Among Green Trees." It shows an avenue of elms In 

 the village of Deerfield, Masfi. The trees are magnifi- 

 cent; no other word expresses it. This New England 

 byway is perhaps more famous for its elms than Is any 

 other eastern village street except that famous one 

 along whase lenfy wny lived Thoroau, Emerson and the 

 Alcotts. "Among Green Trees" is a book not only for 

 the arboriculturists and the nature lover, but lor who- 

 ever appreciates that which is well done in lil^/aturfi 

 and In picture making.— The Chicago Tribvnfi. 



The book oon tains twenty-five splendid lull-page 

 illustrations of trees, and almost everypage bears an 

 excellent half-tone or line engraving. Thelllustratlons 

 ere exceptional In quality, and much of tbe value of 

 the volume lies in their excellence. 



The writing is natural, pleasant and displays intimate 

 knowledge of the subjects. An index in the back of 

 the book will be found very useful, as well as the sys- 

 tematized parts Indexed in the first pages. 



The volume is neatly bound in a dark green cloth, 

 of a dignified size, printed on good smpoth paper, well 

 arranged, and typographically all that could i>e desired 

 ~ The Chicago Evening Journal. 



Julia Ellen Rogers, of Ithaca. N. Y., has written a 

 book called "Among Green Trees." It is in both ex- 

 ternal and internal appearance oue of the handsomest 

 nature books that have been put forth in many ^a sons. 

 Miss Rogers calls her work In a subtitle "A guide to 

 pleasant and profitable acquaintance with familiar 

 trees." What she has written ia just that which she 

 has put it down to b& 



The illustrations in "Among Green Trees" are photo- 

 gravures of a score or more of our forest friend^ and 

 half-tones of trunks and leaves. There are in addition 

 a large number of line engravings from drawings made 

 under the direct supervision of Miss Rogers. The ti ees 

 which are pictured are the finest specimens cf their 

 kind, the subjects having been cho.'^cn with care. 

 Among the subjocts are the black oak, the white pine, 

 the American elm, the tamarack, the red maple, the 

 locust, the £ish, tuc fir and many others. Nature is so 

 evident In these tree reproductions that the leaves fairly 

 seem to whisper to us from the pages of the book. 



"Among Green Trees" will be of Interest not only to 

 the arboriculturist but to every lover of nature. In des- 

 cription Miss Rogers excels. ITie fragrance of the 

 forest is in what she writes.— ^Aa Chicago Record- Herald 



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