AMERICAN WOODS 



ILLUSTRATED BY ACTUAL SPECIMENS 

 BY ROMEYN B. HOUGH, B. A. 



This work is unique in that it is illustrated by actual specimens, and 

 being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and 

 great interest never found in a press-printed book. The specimens are in 

 the form of transverse, radial and tangential sections about 2 x 5 in. in size, 

 and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light. Thereby 

 characteristic structures, tints, etc., are shown in a way that is a revelation. 

 Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log. Both heart- 

 wood and sap-wood are shown. These specimens are mounted in durable 

 frame-like bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces so as not to 

 show soil, and each bears printed in gold-bronze the technical name of the 

 species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. 



The pages are separable, to facilitate examination and comparison, and 

 are accompanied with a full text, bound in leatherette, giving information as 

 to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of 

 growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc., of the trees. 



The specimens of 25 species with corresponding text constitute one 

 volume or Part, and this is encased in a neat clasped book-like cover giving 

 tiae appearance of an ordinary volume. Thirteen Parts have been ibsued aad. 

 are ready for delivery on receipt of ord^r Two more are piopos.d. Each is 

 complete in itself as far as it goes. This work is fascinatingly interesting, 

 of unequaled practical scientific value and indispensable to one who wants 

 to know the woods. The woods used for the specimens are personally collected 

 by the author hence he can vouch for authenticities and are sectioned 

 and prepared by a process of his own device. 



Price: $5 per Part in cloth imitation-morocco binding, green or brown 

 and $7.50 in half-morocco, green or brown. Sample specimen-pages sent rn 

 request. See p. 17 for list of species. 



A VOLUME OF "AMERICAN WOODS" DISPLAYED 



