- R
- Ragged Robin 61
- Ragwort, Golden 200
- Ranunculus 67
- Rattlebox 92
- Rattlesnake Plantain 55
- Rattlesnake-weed 208
- Rhexia virginica 118
- Rhododendron 128
- “ canadense 127
- “ maximum 128
- “ nudiflorum 127
- “ viscosum 126
- Rhodora 127
- Rosin-weed 189
- Rock-rose 112
- Rosa Carolina 89
- “ rubiginosa 90
- Rose, Pasture 89
- “ Sweetbrier 90
- Rubus allegheniensis 85
- Rudbeckia hirta 192
- “ laciniata 193
- S
- Sabbatia 140
- Sabatia angularis 139
- “ dodecandra 140
- “ stellaris 139
- Sagittaria 19
- Sanguinaria canadensis 75
- Saponaria 63
- Sarracenia purpurea 80
- Sarsaparilla, Wild 121
- Saxifraga virginiensis 82
- Saxifrage, Early 82
- Scutellaria integrifolia 153
- Self-heal 153
- Senecio aureus 200
- Shin-leaf 125
- Shooting Star 135
- Silene latifolia 62
- “ virginica 64
- Silphium laciniatum 189
- Silver-rod 179
- Sisyrinchium 44
- Sium circutæfolium 122
- Skullcap 153
- Skunk Cabbage 22
- Smartweed 59
- Smilacina 32
- Smilax 36
- Sneezeweed 199
- Snow-on-the-Mountain 105
- Soapwort 63
- Solanum Dulcamara 157
- “ nigrum 157
- Solidago bicolor 179
- “ cæsia 179
- “ canadensis 180
- “ juncea 180
- “ graminifolia 181
- Solomon’s Seal, False 32
- Solomon’s Seal, True 35
- Sorrel, Wood 100
- Sparganium eurycarpum 18
- Speedwell 163
- Spiderwort 23
- Spigelia marilandica 138
- Spikenard 32
- Spiranthes 55
- Spiræa tomentosa 84
- Spiræa salicifolia 84
- Spring Beauty 65
- Squirrel Corn 77
- Stachys palustris 155
- Star Flower 137
- Star Grass, Yellow 42
- Star-of-Bethlehem 41
- Steeplebush 84
- Steironema ciliatum 136
- Stellaria 60
- St. Johnswort, Common 110
- “ Marsh 111
- Stitchwort 60
- Strawberry, Wild 85
- Streptopus 34
- Sundews 81
- Sundrops 120
- Sunflower, Common 194
- Sunflower, Ten-petalled 194
- Sweetbrier 90
- Symplocarpus fœtidus 22
- T
- Tanacetum vulgare 199
- Tansy 199
- Taraxacum officinale 206
- Tecoma radicans 168
- Tephrosia virginiana 93
- Thalictrum polygamum 69
- Thistle, Common 203
- “ Canada 202
- “ Sow 207
- “ Star 204
- Thorn Apple 158
- Thoroughwort 177
- Tiarella cordifolia 83
- Toadflax 160
- Toothwort 78
- Tradescantia virginiana 23
- Trifolium 94
- Trientalis americana 137
- Trilliums 38
- Trumpet Creeper 168
- Turtle-head 161
- Twayblade 56
- Twinflower 171
- Twisted-stalk 34
- Typha angustifolia 17
- Typha latifolia 17
- U
- Uvularia perfoliata 25
- V
- Verbascum 159
- Verbena 152
- Veronia noveboracensis 176
- Veronica 163
- Vervain 152
- Vetch, Cow 97
- Vicia Cracca 97
- Viola blanda 115
- “ canadensis 114
- “ cucullata 114
- “ lanceolata 115
- “ palmata 113
- “ pedata 113
- “ pubescens 116
- Violet, Bird-foot 113
- “ Common 114
- “ Canada 114
- “ Dog-tooth 31
- “ Palmated 113
- “ White 115
- “ Yellow 116
- Virgin’s Bower 71
- W
- Whitlow Grass 78
- Willow Herb 119
- Willow Herb, Hairy 119
- Wintergreen 131
- Wintergreen, Spotted 124
- Woundwort 155
- Y
- Yarrow 198
- Z
- Zephyranthes Atamasco 41
LAND BIRDS
By CHESTER A. REED, B. S.
An illustrated, pocket text book that enables any one to quickly identify any song or insectivorous bird found east of the Rocky Mountains. It describes their habits and peculiarities; tells you where to look for them and describes their nests, eggs and songs.
EVERY BIRD IS SHOWN IN COLOUR, including the females and young where the plumage differs, from watercolour drawings by the four-colour process. The illustrations are the BEST, the MOST ACCURATE, and the MOST VALUABLE ever printed in a bird book.
“LAND BIRDS” is the most popular and has had the LARGEST SALE (over 200,000 copies) of any bird book published in this country. It is used and recommended by our leading ornithologists and teachers. 230 pages.
Bound in flexible linen and leather
WESTERN BIRD GUIDE
By CHESTER A. REED
A companion volume to the “Land Birds,” and “Water and Game Birds East of the Rockies.” It contains notes on all the land and water birds in the Rockies and West to the Pacific Coast. A coloured illustration of each subject appears on a page, with full description of appearance, season, nesting and food habits, and eggs.
A full and complete index is provided, and valuable suggestions for systematic bird study. The colour work is of the highest quality, and is done after bird portraits that are accurate in all respects.
Prepared by a recognized authority, the book, is perhaps the finest pocket bird manual obtainable.
Printed in convenient form to slip into the back pocket, so as to be available for instant use.
Bound in flexible linen and leather
WATER AND GAME BIRDS
By CHESTER A. REED, B. S.
This book is uniform in size and scope with LAND BIRDS. It includes all of the Water Birds, Game Birds and Birds of Prey, east of the Rockies. Each species is ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR from oil paintings; the bird, its habits and nesting habits are described.
The pictures show more than 230 birds in colour, every species found in our range. They exceed in number those in any other bird book. In quality they cannot be surpassed—exquisite gems, each with an attractive background, typical of the habitat of the species.
“LAND BIRDS” and “WATER BIRDS” are the only books, regardless of price, that describe and show in colour every bird. 250 pages, neatly boxed.
Bound in flexible paper-lined cloth or in strong, flexible imitation leather
FLOWER GUIDE
WILD FLOWERS EAST OF THE ROCKIES
By CHESTER A. REED, B. S.
With 320 Flowers in Colour, Painted by the Author
This volume has been carefully prepared with two objects in view—to serve the greatest number of persons in the greatest possible way, and still have a volume that can be carried comfortably in the pocket. Most of the coloured paintings have been made from living plants, the balance from herbarium specimens. The text and pictures incorporate just those points that will serve to identify each flower as it is most likely to be found. The introductory pages give the life cycle of a plant from seed to seed.
Bound in flexible paper-lined cloth or in strong, flexible imitation leather
THE POCKET GARDEN LIBRARY
Four Volumes, Containing More Than 800 Coloured Illustrations
Edited by LEONARD BARRON
- Garden Flowers of Spring
- By Ellen Eddy Shaw
- Garden Flowers of Summer
- By Ellen Eddy Shaw
- Garden Flowers of Autumn
- By Ellen Eddy Shaw
- Flowers of Winter
- By Montague Free
The first pocket colour guides to popular garden favourites—hardy annuals, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, evergreens, and some greenhouse plants.
They are the same size and general make-up as the Pocket Guide to the birds, the wild flowers, etc., which sell each year into the hundreds of thousands.
The text is concise and up-to-date, and tells how to identify and care for each variety, what value it has for the garden, and the methods of propagation. All the illustrations have been specially made for this work by the best plant portrait painters in America.
Bindings in flexible paper-lined cloth and strong, flexible imitation leather
THE WORTH KNOWING SERIES
Four Volumes, Containing nearly 200 Illustrations, 144 of Which Are in Colour
Fully Indexed
- Birds Worth Knowing
- By Neltje Blanchan
- Trees Worth Knowing
- By Julia Ellen Rogers
- Butterflies Worth Knowing
- By Clarence M. Weed
- Flowers Worth Knowing
- Adapted from the works of Neltje Blanchan
- By Asa Don Dickinson
The Worth Knowing Series forms a much needed in-between link to the larger Nature-Library books and the handy, but necessarily limited, Pocket Nature Guides.
Each of these four volumes covers the most interesting American varieties of the subject treated.
A general introduction to each subject is followed by detailed descriptions of the most interesting families, and of the more important members in each group.
THE BUTTERFLY GUIDE
By DR. W. J. HOLLAND
Author of “The Butterfly Book,” “The Moth Book,” Etc. Similar to the “Pocket Nature Guides”
This is the first Butterfly Book of pocket size giving each species in its natural colours. It is uniform in style and binding to the popular Pocket Nature Guides series, and makes a valuable companion volume to these books.
Dr. Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, is the greatest butterfly authority in the country, and has had more experience in the mounting and artistic posing of moths and butterflies than any other living man. The plates in the Pocket Guide are entirely new and reproduced by a special process under Dr. Holland’s personal supervision, from specimens in his own collection.
This book is the most authoritative and valuable guide for field use ever published. It makes the identifications of our common butterflies a simple matter for amateurs.
Illustrations of 250 butterflies in their natural colours.
Bound in flexible paper-lined cloth or in strong, flexible imitation leather
THE WESTERN FLOWER GUIDE
By CHARLES FRANCIS SAUNDERS
This little volume, uniform with the Pocket Nature Guides, is a comprehensive and compact treatment of the flower life between the Mississippi and the Pacific coast. Its coloured illustrations and the accompanying text make it easy to identify any specimen.
Flowers are described in family groups, and are thus, by a study of resemblances and contrasts, made easier to master. The colour work is attractive and accurate, being reproduced from the work of well known flower portrait painters. The book is prepared by authorities, and the needs of the general public have been considered in the manner of presentation. A bibliography is provided for readers who wish to undertake a more detailed study. Of convenient pocket size, it is an ideal handbook of flower information.
Bound in flexible linen and leather
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH BIRDS
By NEIL MORROW LADD
A complete manual of information upon the treatment of birds. How and where to build bird houses, when to put them out, ways of attracting the desired species, ways of developing nesting and feeding habits, etc. Exhaustive information is given of bird enemies and ways of combating them; insect destroyers of crops and ways of attracting birds which feed upon them; organization of bird clubs, and other means of encouraging and protecting bird life.
The book contains a helpful bibliography, a complete index, and over 200 illustrations, diagrams, charts, etc. It is a complete and authoritative handling of the subject. Pocket size.
Flexible linen and leather binding
HOMING WITH THE BIRDS
A Word and Picture Story of Bird Life in its Intimate Aspects
By GENE STRATTON-PORTER
This book contains the intimate observations of a bird lover who has been, uninvited, at many “at homes” of the birds. She made her visits with her camera, and the book is unique for its numerous unusual photographs of live birds taken nesting, feeding, and singing, revealing intimate aspects of bird life that have rarely been treated so successfully before. Mrs. Porter’s eloquent and enlivening style has made the birds as entertaining as any of her other characters. They are lifelike and amusing, and their comedies and tragedies, their habits and daily life, are presented in a way to leave the reader entertained and informed.
See your garden while planning it with
THE GARDEN BLUE BOOK
By LEICESTER B. HOLLAND
This is the one complete book of reference containing all the practical, needed information about the two hundred hardy perennials. Its remarkable colour chart shows at a glance the height, the time of blooming, the colour of bloom, preference for sun or shade, wet or dry soil, fragrance, cutting qualities—in a word, the whole story of all the dependable perennials. In addition to this chart there is a page given to each perennial, on which there is a photographic reproduction of the plant together with description, cultural directions and enemies, all carefully enumerated.
THE COMPLETE GARDEN
By ALBERT D. TAYLOR, M.S.A.
Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects
Non-resident Professor Landscape Architecture in Ohio Stale University
Practically an entire Garden Library in one volume. In it, garden owners will find the answers to every question on the planning and upkeep of garden grounds.
The book covers substantially every part of the country. The author is a landscape authority and the book was prepared with the consultation of experts in each field.
Every convenience for making the book a complete authority has been added. Many illustrations in colour and black and white, charts, diagrams, cross referenced lists, an exhaustive index, a full bibliography, glossary of terms, etc.
The book is large, handsomely made, and conveniently priced, at $6.00 per volume.
Transcriber’s Notes
- Retained publisher information from the printed copy (the electronic edition is in the public domain in the country of publication).
- Corrected some palpable typos, and standardized spelling of some names.
- Collated index against text: corrected spelling but did not remove spurious entries.
- Corrected “viola pallens” on page 115 to match the index “viola blanda”.
- In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.