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 Oxorv.) 



The Most Superbly Illustrated Tree Book 



Ever Issued. CWitK 512 Reproductions 



of Photographs of Trees by Henry Irving 



the ICesult of Years of Study 



ACXnmATE, THOaOUOH, BEASABLE 



THIS exceptionally complete and magnificently 

 iltastrated work Is meeting with tbe highest 

 commendation and approral from tbe nnmeroas 

 Tre authorities and Forestry students who are 

 acquainted with It. Numbers of our Forestry 

 School IJbrarles haTe already purchased It. It 

 Is pre-eminently a work for Nature LoYers, 

 practical Tree E^xperts and students of Tree Life. 



Analytical tables, diagnoses of families, and 

 numerous illustrations, together with a brief 

 mention of distinctive features, enable the 

 reader to identify each of the seTentj-flTe varle- 

 Ides of trees that are here fully treated. 



Particular trees have been selected for more 

 detailed dlscussioD. For example, branching of 

 the troe is specially illustrated by the Larch. 

 Yew, Horse Chestnut, 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 Cbestitnt 

 and Ash. And so on. 



A MABVZX OF IIXTTSTEATIOir 



Mr. Henry Irving has been engaged for a number of 

 years in making an exhaustive series of photograpfaa of 

 Trees, a field in which he is acknowledged by leading 

 nature photographers without a peer. The finest resolta 

 of bis work are embodied in Professor Groom's 

 "TREES AlTD THEIK LITE HISTORIES" 



This book contains over one hundred large platea 

 and four hundred smaller ones, showing each tree 

 in its summer and In its winter appearance, 

 also of each tree the trunk and bark, tbe 

 bud and twig, the leaf spray, the flower 

 spray, and the fruit cluster. Neither pains 

 nor expense have been spared to make 

 the Illustrations, 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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