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thoughts and the results of his earnest and well-directed labors. In very deed 

 has he surpassed Orpheus. The ancient minstrel made trees dance, but Harland 

 Coultas has made them speak, and with wonderfully attractive eloquence. The 

 true patrons of the highest form of human learning should step out of their way 

 to encourage this philosopher, who gives us the ' sermons in trees' that Shakspeare 

 felt, but has not reported, as is now beautifully done." . 



From the " United States Journal of Homoeopathy," February, 1860. 

 "Hugh Miller has given us ' The Testimony of the Rocks,' and Mr. Coultas 

 here offers The Testimony of the Trees. After a careful perusal of the work, we 

 feel deeply interested in its wide-spread circulation, believing that it must prove 

 highly instructive, both as to Botany and the true aims of life, morally, socially, 

 and spiritually. Seldom do we find an author so exact in detail and philosophical, 

 who writes with so much ease and life as Mr. Coultas. We venture the opinion, 

 that no one who reads two pages of his work, could willingly turn away till the 

 last page is read. And we further venture the opinion that, no one who reads it 

 thoughtfully, can cherish any but feelings of kindness for the author, and the best 

 of wishes for the circulation of his book. Buy a copy, my friends, and read it 

 well ,- and our word for it, when you go forth again into the 'grim old wood,' or 

 shady grove, you will be astonished to find how talkative and companiable are the 

 trees, through whose habitations you have hitherto found only silence and soli- 

 tude." 



From the " Pittsburg Gazette," Jan. 12th, 1860. 



" This is a well-printed and well-arranged book, and is one of the most valuable, 

 in many of its aspects, of any that has fallen under our notice. All persons who 

 make trees and the growth of vegetables a subject of delightful study, will find 

 this work just to their mind. It is, in fact, the biography of a tree, the laws of 

 its growth and the development and death of the tree. We heartily commend this 

 book to the lovers of the beautiful in nature, and to those who love a somewhat 

 original view of an old subject. Mr. Coultas is agent for his own work, and will 

 call upon the people to present before them its claims." 



From the "Baltimore Patriot," October 7th, 1859. 



rt A great deal may be learned from a Tree, as Mr. Coultas, who is an accom- 

 plished Botanist, has shown us in this modestly-written book. All men who un- 

 derstand what they are writing about, will write modestly. Taken as a whole, we 

 do not know a book that contains so much interesting matter in so small a com- 

 pass. It is exceedingly suggestive, and no man can rise from its perusal without 

 acknowledging he has been in the company of a judiciously thinking man." 



From the " Baltimore American," October 12th, 1859. 



" What may be learned from a Tree is the title of a very interesting work handed 

 to us by the author. It is a close and minute inquiry into the mode by which 

 vegetable life developes itself into the form of a tree, and the organization of the 

 tree itself in its mature stage. The investigation and close attention paid to the 

 subject are carefully and lucidly described, and the reader will find in the volume 

 much to interest him, and many items of information both novel and striking. 

 In the present volume Mr. C. shows himself to be not only a lover of nature, but 

 a moralist, and omits no opportunity to draw a parallel between the various stages 

 of vegetable and human life. His conclusions are generally such as all will admit 

 to be correct, proper and judicious, both in a moral and a religious point of view. rt 



From the " Pittsburg Dispatch," Jan. 10th, 1860. 



"Mr. Coultas is evidently an enthusiastic student of Nature a botanist in the 

 higher sense, which seeks to find, beyond mere organic forms, general and culmi- 

 nating laws. It is a little work full of information on what at first thought seems 

 an ordinary subject ; but how few, even among the more intelligent, understand 

 the economy of nature as displayed in the vegetable world." 



THE PRINCIPLES OP BOTANY, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CRYPTOGAMIA (with Illus- 

 trations) . By HARLAND COULTAS. In one volume. Price 50 cents. For sale 

 by Lindsay & Blakiston, 25 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia. 

 Letters and other communications for the author to be addressed as follows : 



HARLAND COULTAS, Post-Office, Philadelphia, Pa, 



