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tree planter, and also lists of a few good trees for plan- 

 tations, roads and lawns. 



Respectfully submitted, 



For the committee, John Robinson, Chairman. 

 Salem, Oct. 16, 1884. 



APPENDIX TO REPORT ON FOREST TREES. 



(A) 

 A few books which may be read or consulted with profit, 

 by the tree planter. 



Graifs Structural and St/stematic Botany. Part I, 

 especially chapters I. to VI., and chapters X. and XI. '' The 

 Botanical Text Book," a later edition of this work by the 

 same author has recently been published. Chapters I. to 

 III., andVII. and YIII- cover about the ground of the above. 

 To study either of them carefully throughout, will be profit- 

 able. Students desiring to pursue the subject further, may 

 use Bessey's " Botany for High Schools and Colleges/' 

 Thome's " Structural and Physiological Botany," and Sach's 

 " Text Book of Botany." 



" Man and Nature,''' by George P. Marsh, or a later 

 edition of the same work entitled " The Earth as Modified 

 by Human Action," octavo, Q^Q pages, New York, Scribner, 

 Armstrong & Co. This is a classical work, and the chap- 

 ters on forests and kindred topics are full of interest and 

 information. 



" A Treatise on the Theory and Practise of Landscape 

 Gardening; adapted to North America,^' by Andrew J. 

 Downing, octavo, 575 pages. 



" Trees and Shrubs,^' hardy, native and introduced, of 

 Great Britian, by James Loudon, octavo, — pages, Lon- 



