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facts about American forests and their care and use. It includes a 

 leaf key to the trees. 



Sargent, Charles Sprague, Forest Trees of North America. U. S. 10th 

 Census, Vol. 9. Quarto, 612 pp. Part 1 deals with the distribution 

 of the forests, and gives a catalog and description of the forest trees 

 of North America, exclusive of Mexico. Part II. Tables of properties 

 of the woods of the U. S. Part III. The economic aspects of the for- 

 ests of the U. S. considered geographically, and maps showing distri- 

 butions and densities. Exceedingly valuable. 



Sargent, Charles Sprague, Jesup Collection, The Woods of the U. S. N. Y. : 

 D. Appleton & Co., 203 pp. A detailed description of the Jesup Col- 

 lection of North American Woods in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, N. Y. City, with valuable tables as to strength, elasticity, 

 hardness, weight, etc. Condensed from Vol. IX of 10th U. S. Census. 



Sargent, Charles Sprague, Manual of the Trees of North America. Boston: 

 Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 826 pp. A compact mine of information, with 

 some errors, about the known trees of North America and their woods, 

 summarized from Sargent's larger work, "The Silva of North America." 

 (See below.) 



Sargent, Charles Sprague, The Silva of North America. Boston: Houghton, 

 Mifflin Co. A monumental and sumptuous work of 14 quarto volumes, 

 describing in great detail all the known trees of North America and 

 their woods, with beautiful line drawings of leaves and fruits. 



Shaler, Nathaniel S., The United States of America. Vol. 1, pp. 485-517. 

 N. Y. : D. Appleton & Co. Chapter IX is a popular description of 

 American forests and the Lumber Industry. 



Snow, Chas. Henry, The Principal Species of Wood. N. Y.: John Wiley & 

 Sons. 203 pp. Descriptions and data regarding the economically im- 

 portant varieties of wood, with excellent photographs of trees and woods. 



Strasburger, Noll, Schenck, and Schimper. A Text Book of Botany. N. Y.: 

 Macmillan & Co. 746 pp. Valuable for minute information about the 

 morphology of wood. 



U. S. Tenth Census, Vol. IX. See Sargent. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Bulletins. The character 

 of these government pamphlets is well indicated by their titles. No. 

 10 is an exceedingly valuable summary of the facts about the structure 

 and properties of wood, contains the best available key to identification 

 of common American woods (not trees) and a concise description of 

 each. It is incorporated, as Chap. XIII, in Johnson's, t( The Materials 

 for Construction." N. Y.: John Wiley & Sons. Nos. 13 and 22 are 

 large monographs containing much valuable information. 

 No. 10. Filibert Roth, Timber. 



No. 13. Charles Mohr, The Timber Pines of the Southern United States. 

 No. 15. Frederick V. Coville, Forest Growth and Sheep Grazing in the 



Cascade Mountains of Oregon. 

 No. 16. Filibert Roth, Forestry Conditions in Wisconsin. 



