Excerpt from Trees I know nothing whatever about trees. If I did, I would be writing of any other matter. For what barren little text-books may be produced within the limits of knowledge! and none, but some pedant with a grain more of knowledge than yourself will have produced a better text-book on your own theme. But when I speak of that I do not know, I show my pedants a pair of heels, Perseus-sandalled, with a golden feather of fancy and the blue wing of a dream; and I rise where they cannot follow, wag they their heads never so wisely sitting spectacled in a ditch. 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.

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