Getting Acquainted with the Trees

Project Gutenberg's Getting Acquainted with the Trees, by J. Horace McFarlandThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Getting Acquainted with the TreesAuthor: J. Horace McFarlandRelease Date: May 12, 2009 [EBook #28764]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE TREES ***Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netGetting Acquainted with the TreesBYJ. HORACE McFARLANDIllustrated from Photographs by the AuthorNEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914Copyright, 1904By The Outlook CompanyPublished April, 1904Reprinted April, 1904New edition September, 1906Reprinted August, 1913 March, 1914.ForewordThese sketches are, I fear, very unscientific and unsystematic. They record the growth of my own interest andinformation, as I have recently observed and enjoyed the trees among which I had walked unseeing far too manyyears. To pass on, as well as I can, some of the benefit that has come into my own life from this wakened interest inthe trees provided by the Creator for the resting of tired brains and the healing of ruffled spirits, as well as for utility, isthe reason for gathering together and somewhat extending the papers that have brought me, as ...