Trees in Winter

Trees in Winter. Every observer knows that there are other ways of recognizing animals and plants than those given by the books, and we all welcome every addition to the literature of these occult ways of coming into touch with nature. That trees may, in general, be recognized as certainly in winter as at other seasons has long been known, and little handbooks codifying their winter characters have appeared in most European countries, and similar keys, etc., have appeared several times in our own country, but unfortunately usually in transient pamphlet form. There is now published a neat and accurate little book dealing with the more obviously marked deciduous trees of northeastern America, the characteristic traits of which are shown by habit halftones, and the twig details by three-color plates. Professor Sargent stands as godfather to the book, which will be an ornament to any center table, and should do much to give incentive to those walks in winter that the few enjoy so keenly and the many forego because they lack a direct object. T.