BRIXTON'S NORTH AMERICAN TREES 



By Nathaniel Lord Bkitton, Dircctor-iu-Cliief of the N. Y. 

 Botaiucal Garden, assisted by J. A. Shafer, Custodian of the 

 Museums of the N. Y. Botanical Garden, 775 illustrations, 894 pp., 

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The most comprehensive and profusely illustrated single volume 

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KERNER AND OLIVER'S NATURAL 

 HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



From the German of Antox Kerner von Marilaux, Professor 

 of Botany in the University of V'^ienna, by F. W. Oliver, Quain 

 Professor of Botany in University College, London, with the assist- 

 ance of Marian Bush and Mary E. Ewart. 4to. 2 vols. The 

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