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Henry H. Gibson
American
Forest Trees
BY
HENRY H. GIBSON
Edited by
HU MAXWELL
Hardwood Record
CHICAGO
1913
Copyright 1913 by
HARDWOOD RECORD
Chicago, Ill.
The Regan Printing House
Chicago.
PREFACE
The material on which this volume is based, appeared inHardwood Record, Chicago, in a series of articles beginning in1905 and ending in 1913, and descriptive of the forest trees of thiscountry. More than one hundred leading species were included in theseries. They constitute the principal sources of lumber for the UnitedStates. The present volume includes all the species described in theseries of articles, with a large number of less important trees added.Every region of the country is represented; no valuable tree is omitted,and the lists and descriptions are as complete as they can be made inthe limited space of a single volume. The purpose held steadily inview has been to make the work practical, simple, plain, and to thepoint. Trees as they grow in the forest, and wood as it appears atthe mill and factory, are described and discussed. Photographs anddrawings of trunk and foliage are made to tell as much of thestory as possible. The pictures used as illustrations are nearlyall from photographs made specially for that purpose. They are avaluable contribution to tree knowledge, because they show forestforms and conditions, and are as true to nature as the camera can makethem. Statistics are not given a place in these pages, for it is no partof the plan to show the product and the output of the country’s millsand forests, but rather to describe the sou