ROMEYN B. HOUGH. 



AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER. 



LOWVILLE. ISr. Y. 



AMERICAN WOODS is a publication on the trees of the United States, more particularly 

 with reference to their woods, and illustrated by actual specimens of the same, showing lioth 

 heart and sap-wood. The specimens are transverse, radial and tangential sections, about 

 2x5 in. in size and sufficiently thin to allow the transmission of light, whereby characteristic 

 structure, tints, etc., are beautifully shown. They are a revelation to those who hare not 

 had opportunity of examining and comparing woods m transmitted light and are a surprise 

 €ven to experienced wood-workers. 



The sections are mounted in durable card-board pages, labeled with technical, English, 

 German, French and Spanish names, and an accompanying text gives information as to 

 botanical characters, distributions, physical properties and uses of the woods, medicinal prop- 

 erties of the trees or its products, etc. The mounted specimens and text go together in a neat 

 book-lilie clasped cover and all can be kept on a shelf or table like an ordinary volume. 



Twen t y - fi V e 

 species are rep- 

 resented in each 

 Part (or volume) 

 and all of the im- 

 portant species 

 of the United 

 States and Can- 

 ada are designed 

 to be represented 

 in the series of 

 of fifteen Parts. 

 Ten Parts have 

 been issued and 

 are now ready 

 for delivery, cov- 

 ering most of the 

 species of north- 

 ern States and 

 Canada and of 

 the Pacific slope. 

 The other Parts 

 are to be issued 

 as promptly as 

 can be, two being 

 now in advanced 

 preparation . ' 



The woods used 

 in the publishing 

 of AMERICAN 

 WOODS and for 

 our mounts fir 

 stereopticon and 

 microscope I 

 make it my per- 

 sonal duty to 

 ■collect, in order that T may be positive of authenticities and secure good, typical material. 

 AMERICAN WOODS is of special interest to all who have to do with woods, in whatever 

 way, or are admirers of woods, to nature students, etc., and is being ordered for both public 

 and private libraries and museums, and for school and private use, wherever an authoritative 

 work is required. 



Price: |o.00 per Pai-t, in cloth imitation morocco binding, and $7.50 in half morocco. 

 Samples of the specimen pages, 25 cts. each. Package of seventy-five unmounted wood- 

 sections, illustrative of five kinds of woods, for class use, $1.00. 



A Volume of American Woods displayed. Note that the pages in which the specimens are 



mounted are separable — to facilitate examination and comparison. The open 



text and cover, which contains all, are shown in the foreground. 



