Handbook of the Trees of New England, by

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Title: Handbook of the Trees of New England

Author: Lorin Low Dame Henry Brooks

Release Date: January 28, 2007 [EBook #20467]

Language: English

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HANDBOOK OF THE TREES OF NEW ENGLAND

WITH RANGES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

BY LORIN L. DAME, S.D. AND HENRY BROOKS

PLATES FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY ELIZABETH GLEASON BIGELOW

BOSTON, U.S.A. GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS The Athenæum Press 1904

PREFACE.

There is no lack of good manuals of botany in this country. There still seems place for an adequately illustrated book of convenient size for field use. The larger manuals, moreover, cover extensive regions and sometimes fail by reason of their universality to give a definite idea of plants as they grow within more limited areas. New England marks a meeting place of the Canadian and Alleghanian floras. Many southern plants, long after they have abandoned more elevated situations northward, continue to advance up

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