TO THE 



MESSRS. HARPERS, IN NEW-YORK. 



My Dear Nephews : — 



As you expressed a wish in your last letter to 



have our Conversations on Trees, of which I spoke 



on a former occasion, I now send them. Others 



may not like trees as much as your old Uncle does 



and may therefore conclude that the children and 



I might have found a more agreeable subject ; but 



I believe it did not prove tedious either to them or 



me. Indeed I have often been struck with the fact 



..»4hat children seldom become weary of having their 



Q-. attention directed to the objects of nature. I hope 



Xjjit will not be deemed time misspent to have taken 



^, some pains to acquaint t|jem with the wealth and 



^ beauty of those magnificent forests which spread 



f^ -over the broad surface of our dear country. Amer- 



"" . ican children ought to know something of Ameri 



can trees : and when I look around upon the 



