of North America not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux. 



Illustrated by 121 colored plates. 2 v., comprising vol. 4, 5 of North 



America Sylva. 



Philadelphia, 1857. D. Rice and A. N. Hart, 2v., col. pi, 271/2 cm. 



% lea. gold edge & back. 



The Sylva of Nuttall and Michaux is a very important work 

 and ranked first among those preceding the Silva of Sargent. 



Sargent, Charles Sprague 



Manual of the trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) . . . 

 with 644 illustrations from drawing by Charles Edward Faxon. 

 Boston, 1905. Houghton, xxiii&818 p, illus. 22% cm. cl. 

 Synopsis and analytical key to the families. 



Sargent, Charles Sprague 



Silva of North America; a description of the trees which grow na- 

 turally in North America exclusive of Mexico, by Charles Sprague 

 Sargent, director of Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; 

 illustrated with figures and analyses drawn from nature by Charles 

 Edward Faxon and engraved by Philibert and Eugene Picart. 

 Boston, 1892-1902. Houghton, 14 vols., illus. 38 cm. bds. 

 vol. 14 contains index to all volumes, including popular as well as 

 scientific names. The text is written with a view to bringing the 

 information to the general public as clearly as to the botanist. The 

 engravings are magnificently executed and the paper, printing, 

 and binding of the books are remarkably fine. 

 The authoritative silva. 



Schacht, Hermann 



Les arbres; etudes sur leur structure et leur vegetation. . .Tr. d'apres 

 la 2me ed. allemande par Edouard Morren . . . Ouvrage public 

 sous les auspices de feu M. le Bon Ai. de Humboldt. 2 ed. augm. 

 de 10 gravures sur acier. Illustree de plus de 505 gravures sur bois, 

 ainsi que de 5 planchees lithographies represantant ensemble 550 

 subjects. 



Brussels, 1864. C. Muquardt, xi&448 p., illus., 14 pi. 25 cm. % lea. 

 Very fine engravings on heavy paper, showing forest trees in 

 natural settings, and numerous engravings in the text as well 

 as 4 fine lithographic plates illustrating structure and growth 

 in detail. In the translator's preface von Humboldt is quoted as 

 referring to Schacht as the modern Pliny. A key to the plates 

 illustrating details of principal German forest-trees is given, 

 as is also a German-French vocabulary of scientific and tech- 

 nical terms used in the book. 

 Forestry and reforestation are important subjects treated. 



Mitchell, Donald Grant 



Wet days at Edgewood with old farmers, old gardeners, and old 

 pastorals, by the author of "My farm of Edgewood." 

 New York, 1883. Scribner, xii&324p., plans, 19 cm. 



Contains good accounts of the ancient writers on agriculture. 



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