A Practical Handbook oF 



TREES SHRUBS VINES 



AND 



HERBACEOUS 

 PERENNIALS 



Jolm Kirkie^aara 



Kjrmerly Assistant to Director of the Royal Botanical Oarderis 



Copenhagen, Denmarl<; 



Latterly Twenty Years in American Forestry 



and Botanical Work 



HARDY AND ORNAMENTAL VARIETIES 



THEIR CHARACTERISTICS, USES 



AND TREATMENT 



"When ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye 

 sticking In a tree. It will be growing when ye're 

 sleeping" 



SIR WALTER SCCTTT 



PUBLISHED BY 



THE BULLARD COMPANY 



BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 



W. B. CLARKE COMPANY, Distributors 



E6-25Trerr,oniSl., Boston, Mass, 



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