*Vi beautiful book df rare tntril.'* 



Among Qreen Trees 



By JULIA ELLEN ROGERS. 



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200 Illustrations, Photogravures and Half-tones, $3.00 



A Qnid« to PUasant and Profitable Acquaintance witb Familiar Trees. 



THE VOLUME IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS : 



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

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

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

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



One of the handsomest ot 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, Profltable Acquain- 

 tance with Familiar Trees." The dedication Is inter- 

 esting and is: 



To my father and mother, Daniel Farrand 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 children a borne 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- 

 rupher know an artistic composition when he saw it. 

 The result is that many of the photogravures are satis- 

 factory from the artistic standpoint.— 2^ OMcago Jnitr 

 Octan. 



It In 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 greeu and gold, contains twenty, 

 tine full-page photogravures of trees, with many smaller 

 halftones Illustrative of bark, leaf and seed The trees 

 cbosen 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. 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, 

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

 the village of Deerfleld, Mass. The trees ate mat/uill- 

 cent; no other word expresses it. This New Englund 

 byway is perhaps more famous for its elms than is any 

 other eastern village etreet except that famous one 

 along whose leafy way lived Thoreau, Emerson and the 

 Alcotts. "Among Greeu 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.— TAe Chtoago Tribune. 



The book contains twenty-five splendid full-page 

 Illustrations of trees, and almost every page bears an 

 excellent half-tone or line engraving. Tneillustrailons 

 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 of the subjects. An Index in the back of 

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

 tematized parts indexed in the first pages. 



Tho volume Is neatly bound in a dark green olotb, 

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

 arranged, and typographically all that could be desired. 

 ~Th« 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 one of the handsomest 

 nature books that have been put forth In many sea.sond. 

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

 pleasant and profitable acquaintance with familiar 

 trees." What she has written \a Just that which she 

 has put It down to be. 



The illustrations in "Among Green Trees" are photo- 

 gravures of a score or more ot our forest friends and 

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

 a large number 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 sublects having been chosen with care 

 Among the subjects are the black oaU, the white pine, 

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

 locust, the ash, the fir and many others. Nature is so 

 evident in those tree reproductions that tho 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 exoels. The fragrance of th« 

 forest iacia what she writes.— 2%* Chicago Record- Herald 



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„ „, ^ A. W. Mumford, Publisher. 



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