Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.
Charles Sprague Sargent
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Book language: English
1372 pages
Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico), 2nd ed., by Charles Sprague Sargent is a botanical manual that surveys the principal tree regions and describes many native tree species with numerous illustrations. The second edition incorporates later discoveries, making it a useful resource for botanists, naturalists, and tree lovers.
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PRINCIPAL TREE REGIONS OF NORTH AMERICA PRINCIPAL TREE REGIONS OF NORTH AMERICA A North Eastern B North Western AB North Eastern & North Western C South Eastern D Tropical Florida E Texas-Mexican Boundary F Rocky Mountains G Oregon & California H New Mexico & Arizona Mexican Boundary MANUAL OF THE TREES OF NORTH AMERICA (EXCLUSIVE OF MEXICO) BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Author of The Silva of North America WITH SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY
CHARLES EDWARD FAXON
AND
MARY W. GILL
Second Edition
The Riverside Press
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1922
COPYRIGHT, 1905 AND 1927, BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
M. R. S.
THE WISE AND KIND FRIEND OF THIRTY YEARS
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
WITH GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The studies of the trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) which have been carried on by the agents and correspondents of the
Arboretum in the sixteen years since the publication of the Manual of the Trees of North America have increased the knowledge of the subject and made necessary a new edition of this Manual. The explorations of these sixteen years have added eighty-nine species of trees and many recently distinguished varieties of formerly imperfectly understood species to the silva of the United States, and made available much
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