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
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
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
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
Four Volumes, Containing More Than 800 Coloured IllustrationsEdited by LEONARD BARRON
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
Four Volumes, Containing nearly 200 Illustrations, 144 of Which Are in ColourFully Indexed
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.
By DR. W. J. HOLLANDAuthor 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 popularPocket Nature Guidesseries, 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
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
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
A Word and Picture Story of Bird Life in its Intimate AspectsBy 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.
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.
By ALBERT D. TAYLOR, M.S.A.
Fellow, American Society of Landscape ArchitectsNon-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.