Leaves of hardy oaks and maples

"This handsomely assembled volume consists of a manuscript title-page, table of contents, and the mounted leaves of twelve varieties of Japanese Maple (Purple Leaf, Blood Leaf, etc.); two varieties of Sycamore Maple, as well as the Ash-leaved Maple and the Red Colchicum Maple; and four Oaks (Golden, Silver, Purple, and Cut-leaved). Each leaf or frond is carefully mounted for the most illustrative effect and neatly identified in manuscript by its common name in the lower margin. The Latin names for each appear in the table of contents. While Parsons doubtless created this volume for professional reference purposes, one senses in it as well his passion for the forms of foliage, and, in his statement of his profession on the title-page, a certain degree of pride in his work in an emerging field that did much to improve the health and quality of life of urban Americans."--bookseller James L. Arsenault and Company.