Excerpt from British Trees: With Illustrations
In presenting these notes on Forest Trees, with the accompanying illustrations, there is no intention of dealing with the subject from a strictly scientific point of view. Comprehensive works of that character, by competent authorities, are in circulation, and no useful purpose would be served, therefore, by traversing over ground which is already well covered.
Our main purposes are to give a description of Forest Trees in a concise, and in what will, it is hoped, prove to be an intelligible and popular form, and also to picture, by means of photography, the actual appearance of these trees in their growth and habit. In some standard works the details are carefully defined, but there is no correspondingly good view as a whole of the specimen tree. "Yet what tree lovers want," wrote a famous American author, "is something that represents "the meaning, the character, the expression of a "tree, as a kind and as an individual."
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