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AMERICAN FORESTRY'S ADVERTISERS 



Adopted by the Cornell Forestry School 



Every Forestry Library Should Own at Least One Copy of 



Trees and 

 Their Life Histories 



By PROFESSOR PERCY A. GROOM. M.A., D.S.C.. F.L.S. 



(Cantab, et Oxon.) 



The Most Superbly Illustrated Tree Book 



Ever Issued. CWitK 512 Reproductions 



of Photographs of Trees by Henry Irving, 



the ICesult of Years of Study 



AOCimATE, THOEOUQH, READABLE 



THIS exceptionally complete and magnlflcentlr 

 Illustrated work la meeting with the highest 

 commendation and approral from the numeroua 

 Tree authorities and Forestry students who ar 

 acquainted with it. Numbers of our Forestry 

 School Libraries hare already purchased It. It 

 Is pre-eminently a work for Nature Lovers, 

 practical Tree Experts and students of Tree Life. 



Analytical tables, diagnoses of families, and 

 numerous lUnstratlons, together with a brief 

 mention of distinctive features, enable the 

 reader to Identify each of the seventy-flve varle- 

 Mes of trees that are here fully treated. 



Particular trees have been selected for more 

 detailed discussion. For example, branching of 

 the tree Is specially Illustrated by the Larch, 

 Yew, Horse Cbestnut, and others; branching of 

 a shrub and weeping tree, by the Elder and 

 Laburnum; the repair of injuries, by the Scots 

 Pine; the shape and conduct of a light- 

 demanding tree, by the Larch and Birch; the 

 degeneration of flowers, by the Sweet Chestnut 

 and Alb. And so on. 



Price. $10.00 Net. Sent on Approval 



LET US SEND YOU THIS VOLUME WITH THE 

 UNDERSTANDING that should it fail to substantiate 

 all our claims, you may return it to us by Express Collect. 

 We will in this case refund you the full amount of 

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A MARVEL or ILLXXSTEATIOK 



Mr. Henry Irving has been engaged for a number of 

 years in making an exhaustive series of photographs of 

 Trees, a field In which he Is acknowledged by leading 

 nature photographers without a peer. The finest results 

 of his work are embodied In Professor Groom's 



"TEEES AND THEIE LIFE HISTORIES" 



This book contains over one hundred large platee 

 and four hundred smaller ones, showing each tree 

 In Its summer and In Its winter appearance, 

 also of each tree the trunk and bark, the 

 bud and twig, the leaf spray, the flower 

 spray, and the fruit cluster. Neither pains 

 nor expense have been spared to make 

 the lllustratioDS, as they have never 

 before been done, complete, typical, 

 and true to nature. 



The work Is a large Octavo, 

 printed with great care on the 



finest quality surface paper 

 and strongly bound In green 

 silk cloth and gold. 



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