Excerpt from Trees and Their Life Histories The explanatory Introduction will be found useful to those unacquainted with botany, but superfluous to others. Every pursuit must have its own technology to ensure accuracy, but throughout this work I have reduced technical terms to a minimum. Analytical tables, diagnoses of families, and numerous illustrations will enable the reader to identify the various trees, and certainty in this respect is quickly ensured by the brief mention of distinctive features that is pre fixed to the account of every tree described. 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.