The matter contained in this volume is taken wholly from “The Woods and
By-Ways of New England,” omitting all that is published in Volume I.,
and which has no special reference to trees. This volume, beside the
particular description of species, treats of the value and beauty of
trees and forests, of their climatic influence as purifiers of the
atmosphere, of their relations to water, to electricity, to temperature,
to the soil, to shade and salubrity, to birds and insects, to ornament,
and to poetry and fable.
[Illustration: THE WOODS.]