'*A beautiful book of rare merit. '^ 



Among Green Trees 



By JULIA^ ELLEN ROGERS. 

 200 Illustrations, Photogravures and Half-tones, $3.00 



A Qtiidc to l^lcajant and Profitable Acquaintance with Familiar Trees. 

 THE VOI^UME IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS t 

 Part I. Outdoor studies with trees. The nature-study side. 

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



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

 Part IV. The kinds of trees. The systematic side. 



One of the handsomest of the 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 Rogers. It Is, as the subtitle 

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

 tance with PamUiar Trees." The dedication Is inter- 

 esting and is: 



To my father and mother, Daniel Parrand Rogers and 

 Ruth Llewellyn Rogers, pioneers of the treeless prairie, 

 who planted seed and sapling, who toiled and hoped 

 and waited to make for their ohildrea a home among 

 green trees. 



The contents are both entertaining and valuable for 

 their facts, But quite as interesting as the text are the 

 Illustrations. These consist of full-page photogravures 

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

 ings In line. 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'A« Chicago Inter 

 Ocean. 



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 fall-page photogravures of trees, with many smaller 

 halftones illustrative of bark, leaf and seed The trees 

 chosen are typical ones, the selections being in each 

 instance of a well-nigh perfect plant. 



Miss Rogers lakes her readers 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 beauti- 

 ful illustrations are of the greatest assistance in the 

 understanding of the nature laws of which the writer 

 tells. TTiere Is much beside mere description of tree 

 life In this book of trees. Pull and complete instnio- 

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

 The enemies of the trees, fungus growth and Insects, 

 are considered at length, 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, transplanted 

 to the prairies, sometimes expresses a yearning desire 

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



"Among Gri^en Trees." It shows an avenue of elms in 

 the village of Deerfleld, Mass. 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 whose leafy way lived Tbbreau, Emerson and the 

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

 the arboriculturists and the nature lover, but for who- 

 ever appreciates that which is well done in literature 

 and In picture making.— TA« Chicago Tribune. 



The book contains twenty-five splendid full-page 

 Illustrations of trees, and almost every page bears an 

 excellent half-tone or line engraving. Tneiilustrailona 

 are exceptional In quality, and much of the value of 

 the volume lies In their excellence. 



The writing is natural, pleasant and displays intimate 

 knowledge ot the subjects. An index in the back of 

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

 tematized parts indexed In tbe first pages. 



Tho volume is neatly bound in a dark green cloth, 

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

 arranged, and typographically all that could be desired. 

 —The Chicago Evening Journal. 



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

 book called "Among Green Trees." It Is In both ex- 

 ternal and internal appearance one of the handsomest 

 nature books that have been put forth In many seasons. 

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

 pleasant and profitable acquaintance with familiar 

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

 has put it down to be. 



The illustrations in "Among Green Trees" are photo- 

 gravures of a score or more of our forest friends and 

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

 a large nuniber of line engravings from drawings made 

 under the direct supervision of Miss Rogers. The trees 

 which are pictured are the finest specimens of their 

 kind, the Bubjects having been chosen with care. 

 Among tbe subjects are the black oak, the white pine, 

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

 locust, the ash, the 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 dcs- 

 oription Miss Rogers excels. The fragrance of th« 

 forest is in what she writes.— 2%« Chicago Becord- Herald 



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BIRDS AND NATURE, one year, $2.00, 

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