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_Timber_ Vol. 26, p. 978.
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Bulletin 103, Entomology, 25. Valuable for colored illustrations
as well as for detailed descriptions.
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& Co. 1902, quarto 520 pp. A treatment of forests and forestry
from the standpoint of economics, including a comprehensive
exposition of the forester's art, with chapters on forest
conditions, silviculture, forest policies, and methods of
business conduct, with a bibliography.
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Department of Agriculture_, 1887-1898. Fifty-fifth Congress,
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A review of forests and forestry in the U. S., of forest policies
of European nations, particularly of Germany, of the principles
of silviculture, of a discussion of forest influences, and a
section on timber physics.
Harwood, W. S., _The New Earth_. N. Y.: The Macmillan Co., 1906.
378 pp. A recital of the triumphs of modern agriculture.
Chap. X on modern forestry, describes what has been done in
different states in conservative lumbering.
Hough, Romeyn B., _American Woods_. Lowville, N. Y.: The
author. An invaluable collection in eleven volumes (boxes)
of sections of 275 species of American woods. There are three
sections of each species, cross, radial, and tangential,
mounted in cardboard panels. Accompanied by a list of
descriptions and analytical keys.
Hough, Romeyn B., _Handbook of the Trees of the Northern
States and Canada_. Lowville, N. Y.: The author. 470 pp.
A unique, elegant, and sumptuously illustrated book, with
photographs of tree, trunk, leaf, fruit, bud, and sometimes
wood, a map of the habitat of each species, and a full and
careful description of tree and wood. Intended for botanists,
foresters and lumbermen.
Johnson, J. B., _The Materials of Construction_. N. Y.: John
Wiley & Sons. 1898. 775 pp. Chapter XIII is identical with
Forestry Bulletin X, Roth's _Timber_.
Keeler, Harriet, _Our Native Trees_. N. Y.: Scribner's. 1900.
533 pp. A very attractive and popular book showing great
familiarity with the common trees and love of them. Numerous
photographs and drawings.
Lounsberry, Alice, _A Guide to the Trees_. N. Y.: Frederick
A. Stokes Co. 313 pp. A popular description of some 200 common
trees, with plentiful illustrations.
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