Excerpt from The Shrubs of Northeastern America One has a similar feeling toward the humbler company of the shrubs. As I undertook the pleasant work of introduction between the many who have no technical botanical knowl edge and my friend the trees, now I do the same for them and my friends the shrubs. The shrubs described in the following pages are those which are found native in Canada and the United States east of the Mississippi River and north of the latitude of Southern Pennsylvania. With these are described the more important of the introduced and naturalized species. The woody vines of the section are not included. They are reserved for another volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.