Our Native Trees And How To Identify Them - A Popular Study Of Their Habits And Their Peculiarities A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities

PREFACE THE trees described in this voluine are those indigenous to the region extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the northern boundaries of the southern states together with a few wellknown and naturalized foreign trees such as the Horsechestnut, Lombardy Poplar, Ailanthus and Sycamore Maple. It is hoped that this book will commend itself To amateur botanists who desire a more extended and accurate description of trees than is given by the botanical text-books in ordinary use. To such of the general public as habitually live near fields and woods or whose love of rural life has led them to summer homes in hill country or along the sea-shore or whose daily walks lead them through our city parks and open commons. To all those who feel that their enjoyment of out-door life would be distinctly increased were they able easily to determine the names of trees. The author is glad to acknowledge her great indebtedness to the following books of reference Sargents The Silva of North America, Michauxs North American SyIva, Loudons Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, Emersons Report on the Trees and Shrubs of Riassachusetts, Sachs Physiology of Plants, Sachs Text-Book of Botany, Le Maout and Decaisnes General System of Botany, Britton and Browns Illustrated Flora of the United States and Canada, Dawsons Geological History of Plants, Houghs American Woods, Grays Manual of Botany, sixth edi vii PREFACE tion, Vines Students Text-Book of Botany, The Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States, and the magazine Garden nnd Poorest. The extracts from the works of Lowell, Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, Holmes, Thoreau, Burroughs, and Miss Thomas are usedwith the permission of and by special arrangement with the publishers Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin Sr Co., those from Wilson Flagg with the pernlission of the Educational Publishing Co., that from Bryant with the permission of the publishers, Messrs. D. Appletoil Co. The quotations from the works of Professor G. Frederick IVright, Professor George Pierce, and Professor D. T. Mac-Dougal are made by the kind consent of the authors. Especial acknowledgment is due to Professor Charles S. Sargent not only because in the preparation of this volume the Silva of North America has been the authority which has decided every case of doubt and because of his kind permission to quote from his writings, but also because of his kindly interest and his invaluable assistance in obtaining specimens for illustrations from the Arnold Arboretum. To Miss Anna J. Wright, Miss Charlotte Bushilell and Mr. Charles F. Pack especial thanks are due for valuable notes and suggestions also to the Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden for specimens kindly sent upoil request. The outline pictures are the work of Miss Mary Keffer of Cleveland, Ohio. The photographs for the illustrations were taken partly by Mr. Alfred Redher, of the Arnold Arboretum, partly by Mr. Charles H. Coit, of Glenville, Ohio, but principally by Decker, Edmonson Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. May 20, 1900.