Trees (The Nature Library)

xxi, 291 pp. Top edge gilt. Includes 48 illustrations in full color. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Life of the Trees; The Nut Trees: The Walnuts; The Hickories; The Beech; The Chestnuts; The Oaks; The Horse-chestnuts; The Lindens; Water-loving Trees: The Poplars, The Willows; The Hornbeams; The Birches; The Alders; The Sycamores; The Gum Trees; The Osage Orange; Trees with Showy Flowers and Fruits: The Magnolias; The Dogwoods; The Viburnums; The Mountain Ashes; The Rhododendron; The Mountain Laurel; The Madrona; The Sorrel Tree; The Silver Bell Trees; The Sweet Leaf; The Fringe Tree; The Laurel Family; The Witch Hazel; The Burning Bush; The Sumachs; The Smoke Tree; The Hollies; Wild Relatives of Our Orchard Trees: The Apples; The Plums; The Cherries; The Hawthorns; The Service-berries; The Hackberries; The Mulberries; The Figs; The Papaws; The Pond Apples; The Persimmons; The Pod-bearing Trees: The Locusts; The Acacias; Miscellaneous Species; Deciduous Trees with Winged Seeds; The Maples; The Ashes; The Elms; The Cone-bearing Evergreens; The Pines; The Spruces; The Firs; The Douglas Spruce; The Hemlocks; The Sequoias; The Arborvitaes; The Incense Cedar; The Cypresses; The Junipers; The Larches; The Palms; General Index.