PKEFACE, 



VII 



and unfamiliar terms than was actually necessary in describing 

 the various species and varieties. 



Furthermore, at the suggestion of the publishers, I have been 

 as brief as possible, in order to make a book that can be sold at 

 a price within the means of all, and one that will not even deter 

 the summer tourist, who is about to spend a few days or weeks 

 in the country, from dropping a copy into his grip-sack before 

 leaving home. Could I have followed my own desires and 

 pleasures in this matter, the book would have been extended to 

 a thousand pages, and illustrated at a cost of many thousands 

 of dollars, but there are comparatively a small number of per- 

 sons who take sufficient interest in forestry to purchase such a 

 work; consequently my own wishes have been made subservi- 

 ent to these circumstances, which neither author nor publishers 

 have power to control. 



I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to the excellent bo- 

 tanical works of Prof. Asa Gray, and those of the late Dr. 

 Chapman, of Florida, and Dr. Engelmann, of St. Louis, also to 

 those other botanists, which I have had occasion to consult, and 

 especially to the recently completed " Botany of California," by 

 Profs. Gray, Brewer, Watson, and their many able assistants. 

 To the works of Michaux, Nuttall, and other earlier writers I 

 have frequently referred in the following pages, also to the 

 **Book of Evergreens," by Josiah Hoopes, to which I have 

 called especial attention in the Chapter on Coniferse. I have 

 endeavored to give proper credit to the first describer of the 

 species, but may in some instances have failed in this, owing to 

 the confusion existing in regard to this matter in some of our 

 botanical works. 



Andrew S. Fuller. 



Ridgewood, Bergen Co*, J., I884, 



