Trees, Vol. 3: A Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Trees, Vol. 3: A Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory

The same remarks also apply to the morphology and development of the Flower, the subject of which must here be necessarily dealt with in a mere sketch.

The student will find the subject of pollen and pollination by Insects, Wind, &c., also dealt with in a general but, I hope, satisfactory and efficient manner suitable to the purposes of the book.

The lettering denoting acknowledgement of the wood cuts is as in previous volumes, and the Bibliography at the end of the book shows whence further facts may be obtained.

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Excerpt from Trees, Vol. 3: A Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory

The first and second volumes of this work dealt respectively with "Buds and Twigs" and with "Leaves," and in each case it was incumbent on me to invent a special scheme of classification by means of which the reader should be able to identify our native and commonly introduced Trees and Shrubs in the Winter or at other seasons when they are devoid of Flowers.

Indeed Volume I., on "Buds and Twigs," is essentially and particularly a book for the Winter-study of Trees, to enable the student to recognise even deciduous woody plants by such marks as the leaf-scars, bud-scales, position and structure of buds, and so forth. Volume II., on "Leaves," on the other hand, is concerned entirely with the study of foliage, and especially at periods when, as in Spring and Autumn, or at ages when the tree is still too young to bear flowers and fruit, the characters of the leaves and other vegetative organs are alone available for diagnosis.

In the present Volume, the third of the series of six of which this work will consist, I have designed what may be regarded as emphatically a book for the Summer.

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