Excerpt from Sylvan Ontario: A Guide to Our Native Trees and Shrubs With this change of attitude towards the trees has come the very laudable desire to know more of them, to learn their names, their habits, and their uses. Such knowledge has been heretofore confined largely to two sources, the practical experience of the farmer or lumberman and the learned research of the systematic botanist, both of these being equally impracticable to the average observer. The purpose of this little book is to introduce the subject in a popular wayto the intelligent reader, to show that there is more in the woods than is found by the scaler with his rule, and that such may be appreciated without the endless terminology of floral botany. On the other hand, the botanist's exactness in method and description is applied with the fewest possible technical terms, and the guide-marks of the woodman are rendered as definite as language will permit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.