PREFACE, 



IN presentin.o; these notes on Forest Trees, 

 with the accompanvini,' illustrations, there 

 is no intention of dealint^ with the subjeft 

 from a striftly scientific point of view. Compre- 

 hensive works of that character, by competent 

 authorities, are in circulation, and no useful 

 purpose w^ould be served, therefore, by traversin,<,^ 

 over i^round which is already well covered. 



Our main purposes are to give a description of 

 Forest Trees in a concise, and in what will, it is 

 hoped, prove to be an intelligible and popular form, 

 and also to pidure, by means of photography, the 

 actual appearance of these trees in their growth and 

 habit. In some standard works the details are 

 carefully defined, but there is no correspondingly 

 good view as a whole of the specimen tree. 

 " Yet what tree lovers want," wrote a famous 

 American author, " is something that represents 

 " the meaning, the character, the expression of a 

 " tree, as a kind and as an individual." The same 

 author suggested that the better way of realising 

 this objedl was to take photographs of various 



