Roth, Filibert, A First Book of Forestry. Boston: Ginn & Co. 291 pp. A book for young people, giving in an interesting form many valuable facts about American forests and their care and use. It includes a leaf key to the trees.
Sargent, Charles Sprague, Forest Trees of North America. U. S. 10th Census, Vol. 9. Quarto, 612 pp. Part I deals with the distribution of the forests, and gives a catalog and description of the forest trees of North America, exclusive of Mexico. Part II. Tables of properties of the woods of the U. S. Part III. The economic aspects of the forests of the U. S. considered geographically, and maps showing distributions and densities. Exceedingly valuable.
Sargent, Charles Sprague, Jesup Collection, The Woods of the U. S. N. Y.: D. Appleton & Co., 203 pp. A detailed description of the Jesup Collection of North American Woods in the American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. City, with valuable tables as to strength, elasticity, hardness, weight, etc. Condensed from Vol. IX of 10th U. S. Census.
Sargent, Charles Sprague, Manual of the Trees of North America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 826 pp. A compact mine of information, with some errors, about the known trees of North America and their woods, summarized from Sargent's larger work, "The Silva of North America." (See below.)
Sargent, Charles Sprague, The Silva of North America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. A monumental and sumptuous work of 14 quarto volumes, describing in great detail all the known trees of North America and their woods, with beautiful line drawings of leaves and fruits.
Shaler, Nathaniel S., The United States of America. Vol. 1, pp. 485-517. N. Y.: D. Appleton & Co. Chapter IX is a popular description of American forests and the Lumber Industry.
Snow, Chas. Henry, The Principal Species of Wood. N. Y.: John Wiley & Sons. 203 pp. Descriptions and data regarding the economically important varieties of wood, with excellent photographs of trees and woods.
Strasburger, Noll, Schenck, and Schimper. A Text Book of Botany. N. Y.: Macmillan & Co. 746 pp. Valuable for minute information about the morphology of wood.
U. S. Tenth Census, Vol. IX. See Sargent.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Bulletins. The character of these government pamphlets is well indicated by their titles. No. 10 is an exceedingly valuable summary of the facts about the structure and properties of wood, contains the best available key to identification of common American woods (not trees) and a concise description of each. It is incorporated, as Chap. XIII, in Johnson's, "The Materials for Construction." N. Y.: John Wiley & Sons. Nos. 13 and 22 are large monographs containing much valuable information.