Describir: The North American Sylva; or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees. Illustrated by 156 colored engravings / translated from the french of F. Andrew Michaux, member of the philosophical society of Philadelphia, etc. etc. ; with notes by J. Jay Smith, editor of the horticultorist, member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, etc.