Among Green Trees: A Guide to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance With Familiar Trees (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Among Green Trees: A Guide to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance With Familiar Trees

We now have a half-dozen recent popular books devoted to the trees Of the northeastern United States and Canada. These books are well written, well illustrated, and sold at a reasonable price. The aim of each is to describe all the trees, or approximately all, and to Show the general reader how he may learn to know them apart. All this is as it should be, and I doubt if any other country is so well provided. But the book that describes all the trees has this Obvious limitation: it can have little or no room left for other interesting and practical matter about trees. In Short, the identification book which deals only with the kinds and names of trees is necessarily one-sided, and there is a great need and a clear call today for an all-round tree book.

Moreover, all the trees are too many for most readers. The greater the number to consider, the harder it is to distinguish and to remember them. Few of us care to know about all the oaks; it is the ten or a dozen common oaks that we want to know - to recognize wherever we see them growing. This book aims in Part IV to describe the common and important trees that grow in the states north of Virginia and Arkansas, and east of the Rocky Mountains. Among the native species are included many forms introduced from other countries, and commonly planted in the United States. About 125 different kinds of trees are described.

The limits set to the identification part of this book give room for the consideration of much besides that is of interest and importance to any one who loves trees and longs for a closer and more intelligent acquaintance with them. In Part II the author has nothing new nor startling to reveal on the subject of the life that a tree lives from day to day. The facts stated are set down in books already. But these books are written for the special, not for the general reader. They are learned books, which abound in technical terms. They satisfy the scientific mind which has this particular botanical bent.

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