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• Trees -- United States

• The North American Sylva: or, A Description of the Forest Trees, of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia (6 volumes, first 3 by Michaux and translated by Hillhouse; last 3 by Nuttall; Philadelphia: J. Dobson (and other publishers on last volumes), 1841-1849), by François André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall, trans. by Augustus L. Hillhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Woods, Exhibited By Actual Specimens and With Copious Explanatory Text (14 volumes (last completed by Marjorie Hough), various editions; 1894-1928), by Romeyn Beck Hough, contrib. by Marjorie Galloway Hough (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada East of the Rocky Mountains: Photo-descriptive (Lowville, NY: The author, 1907), by Romeyn Beck Hough (page images at HathiTrust)

• Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced) (1989), by Elbert L. Little and Roger G. Skolmen (PDF with commentary at hear.org)

• Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (full serial archives)

• Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada East of the Rocky Mountains: Photo-descriptive (Lowville, NY: The author, 1907), by Romeyn Beck Hough (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Talking Trees; and Canadian Forest Trees (Ottawa: F. A. Acland, 1921), by James Lawler and Canada. Forestry Branch (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• A Guide to the Trees (Toronto: W. Briggs, c1900), by Alice Lounsberry, illust. by Ellis Rowan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by Frank J. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt
  • illustrated HTML at books-about-california.com
  • Gutenberg text (text only)
• The architecture and landscape gardening of the exposition, a pictorial survey of the most beautiful of the architectural compositions of the Panama-Pacific international exposition; (first edition; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., 1915), ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond, and John Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (second edition, revised; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1915), by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gardens of the Gilded Age: Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Homegrounds of New York State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1986), by M. Christine Klim Doell (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• The Distribution of Forest Trees in California (1972), by James R. Griffin and William Burke Critchfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Silva of California (second volume in Memoirs of the University of California; Berkeley: The University Press, 1910), by Willis Linn Jepson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Trees of California (first edition, c1909), by Willis Linn Jepson (page images at Cornell)
• The Big Trees of California: Their History and Characteristics (1907), by Galen Clark (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• Forest Trees of Maine (Maine Forest Service centennial edition, 2008) (PDF files at state.me.us)

• Illustrated Hand Book: Rawson's Vegetable and Flower Seeds (1894), by W. W. Rawson and Co.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at biodiversitylibrary.org

• Illustrated Hand Book: Rawson's Vegetable and Flower Seeds (1894), by W. W. Rawson and Co.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at biodiversitylibrary.org

• Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species (reprint of revised edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956), by Charles Herbert Otis, contrib. by George Plumer Burns (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Key to the Deciduous Trees of Ohio, Native and Planted, in Winter Condition (c1937), by E. Lucy Braun (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trees and Shrubs of Roger Williams Park (Providence: Roger Williams Park Museum, 1928), by Maribelle Cormack (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diseases of Forest and Shade Trees of the United States (USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook #386; 1971), by George H. Hepting (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diseases of Forest and Shade Trees of the United States (USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook #386; 1971), by George H. Hepting (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Succession of Forest Trees, by Henry David Thoreau (HTML at monadnock.net)
• Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign (London: Macmillan, 1875), by Thomas Laslett (page images at Cornell)
• The Pneumatic System of Plants, Especially Trees (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #441; 1933), by Daniel Trembly MacDougal and Earl B. Working (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and Methods of Tree-Ring Analysis (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #486, 1937), by Waldo S. Glock, contrib. by A. E. Douglass and G. A. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rare and Endemic Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (USDA Forest Service Conservation Research Report #27; 1980), by Elbert L. Little and Roy O. Woodbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modeling the Probability of Individual Tree Mortality (Ogden, UT: Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1976), by David A. Hamilton and Bruce M. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the Insect Defoliators of Our Shade Trees (New York: Globe Stationery and Printing Co., ca. 1887), by Charles V. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Word of Teregor (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1914), by Guy Ridley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tree and Bird as Cosmological Symbols in Western Asia (Amsterdam: J. Müller, 1921), by A. J. Wensinck (page images at Gallica)

• Rainfall and Tree Growth in the Great Basin (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #469; American Geographical Society Special Publication #21; 1938), by Ernst Antevs (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland (7 volumes; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1906-1913), by Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Studies in Tree-Growth by the Dendrographic Method (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #462; 1936), by Daniel Trembly MacDougal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rainfall and Tree Growth in the Great Basin (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #469; American Geographical Society Special Publication #21; 1938), by Ernst Antevs (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Key to the Deciduous Trees of Ohio, Native and Planted, in Winter Condition (c1937), by E. Lucy Braun (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland (7 volumes; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1906-1913), by Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Old Willow Tree, and Other Stories (London: Thornton Butterworth, c1921), by Carl Ewald, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, illust. by Helen Jacobs and G. E. Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hollow Tree Nights and Days: Being a Continuation of the Stories About the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods People (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1916), by Albert Bigelow Paine, illust. by J. M. Condé (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The First Book of Trees (New York: Greystone Press, c1951), by Maribelle Cormack, illust. by Helene Carter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Talking Trees; and Canadian Forest Trees (Ottawa: F. A. Acland, 1921), by James Lawler and Canada. Forestry Branch (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Arnoldia (full serial archives)
• Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (full serial archives)
• Bulletin of Popular Information (full serial archives)
• Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Rare and Endemic Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (USDA Forest Service Conservation Research Report #27; 1980), by Elbert L. Little and Roy O. Woodbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trees (London: B. T. Batsford, 1914), by Eleanor Farjeon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• How to Grow Tree Seedlings in Containers in Greenhouses (Fort Collins, CO: Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1979), by Richard W. Tinus and Stephen E. McDonald (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.