*^A beautiful looTc of rare merit/' 



\mong Green Trees 



By JU LIA ELLEN RO GERS. 



Nearly 200 Illustrations, Photogravures, Half-tones and Line Drawings, $3.00 

 i Guide to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance with Familiar Trees. 



THE VOLUME IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS: 



Part I. Outdoor Studies with Trees. The nature-study side. 



Part II. The Life of Trees. The physiological side. 



Part III. The Cultivation of Trees. The practical side. 



Part IV. The Kinds of Trees. The systematic side. 



••Among Green Trees'Ms a book that every teacher, 

 very nature lover and every library should possess. 

 Luthor and publisher have done their work with a 

 horoughness that leaves little to be desired In content 

 ,nd make-up. The author has treated her subject from 

 he view-point of the botanist, the arboriculturist, the 

 lurseryman and the landscape gardener, but chiefly of 

 he lover of trees. The book contains a wealth of prac- 

 Ical, interesting Information, enriched by superb pho- 

 ogravures and excellent line engravings. There is a 

 )readth of treatment and^a charm of presentation In 

 his volume that one rarely flnds.- The study of Its 

 )road, cleanly-printed pages will Inspire a love for 

 irees, nature's noblest gift to man.— Ir. W» Champion^ 

 Attorney-at-Law, Wiiliamsport, Fa, 



It Is the best tree book I have yet seen. The nature- 

 study side is admirably presented. There is a tone in 

 the book that fills one with a strong yearning to go out 

 and read for one's self the open book of nature. The 

 spirit and aroma of the fields and woods are breathed 

 In from every page. It Is the book for the tree lover.— 

 Daniel W. Hamm, Allentown, Pa. 



You have made not only the best tree book we have 

 for the purposes of t,he nature lover, but the only tree 

 book that approaches the tree In the right spirit. Take 

 away Sargent's great "Silva", and I would far rather 

 lose all the others than lose yours. All the rest 

 chiefly give you a bowing acquaintance with lots of 

 trees, so that one can gain through them the cheap 

 reputation of " knowing all' the tres." But your book 

 gives one an Intimate knowledge of a few trees, and a 

 real and abiding knowledge of "the tree." Yours is the 

 book I should dearly lov to have written myself. — 

 Projessor J3. C. Scfimucker, State Normal ScAool ' West 

 Chester, Fa, 



••Among Green Trees'* came In due time and I am de- 

 lighted with the book. I think the publisher is to be 

 congratulated as well as the author. The royal size, 

 green cover, enameled paper, wide margins and open, 

 perfect type all strike my eye. Finest of all are the 

 photogravures. I have been greatly interested In the 

 reading. I did not know the tree story could be told so 

 faithfully and so fasciuatingiy I am proud to have the 

 book among my books.— iro/'^aor J,» VaUonoe Brown, 

 Tarkio College, Tarkio, Mo. 



••Among Green Trees" la a book • *^e ar- 

 boriculturist and the nature lovf ■'<»ver 



appreciates that which is well dc^w nd 



picture making.— 2%« Chicago Tribune. 



It is very finely executed, is full of valuable In- 

 formation, and is In all ways a credit to author and 

 ItnhlisheT.— Eon. Henry Sabin, Des Moines, Ia.,form«rlv 

 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 



This Is truly •'a guide to pleasant and profitable 

 acquaintance with familiar trees," a book that will 

 send one out of doors In all seasons to find out for him- 

 self the secrets of the woods. It Is not merely a book 

 of identification, the subject being treated from at least 

 four points of view. Eleven chapters are devoted to 

 outdoor studies with trees, or nature study In its best 

 sense— "a keen appreciative interest In the common 

 things about us." In these chapters are discussed in a 

 suggestive. Interesting style such subjects as the life 

 history of a maple tree, the flight of seeds, knots and 

 knot-holes, thorns and prickles, and winter buds. Part 

 II. follows, giving the physiology of trees, telling how 

 they breathe, feed, grow and sleep, how they reproduce 

 their kind and why they die. Perhaps a little more 

 than one-fourth of the book Is given up to the different 

 kinds of trees, the most common ones o nly being de- 

 scribed. Perhaps the most Interesting, certainly the 

 most useful part of Miss Rogers's book is that section 

 devoted to the cultivation of trees. Such practical 

 matters are taken up as the planting of home and 

 school grounds, pruning, grafting, the treat, ent of the 

 enemies of trees, and the use of the f armer'< wood lot. 

 —Southern Workman. 



lUa Ellen 

 1 "Among 

 interested 

 a, but will 

 edge with 

 things all 

 trees at a 

 leaf shape 

 and trans- 

 V are com- 

 [m from a 

 line. Thli 

 rated with 

 runks and 

 uporvlsion 



Every-day tree problems are treated !:>; 

 Rogers In such a simple, every-day mann 



Green Trees" that readers will nn 

 with the strange and curious truti: 

 at the same time enrich their stort 

 an additional fund concerning '>■■ 

 about them. It Is a real pleas 

 glance,to distinguish by bark fornj 

 one from another, to know all abou . 

 planting, and how to care for ti " %, 

 petent In a walk In the suburbs / » 

 birch, a beech from a maple, a i^ 

 book win teach how to know. It 

 photogravures of entire trees, half 

 leaves, and line engravings made u- 

 of the author.— 7%« Boston Olobe. 



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