The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia
Subtitle: 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 coloured engravings
By: translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ; with notes by J. Jay Smith.
Contributors: Smith, J. Jay 1798-1881.; Michaux, François-André, 1770-1855.
Publisher: R.P. Smith; G.P. Putnam
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Philadelphia; New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Trees -- North America.; Botany -- North America.
Other titles: A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia
Notes: "In three volumes.  Vol. I."

Part of a CIHM set.  For individual microfiches in this set see CIHM microfiche nos. 38865-38868.

Translation of: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale.

To be read in conjunction with Thomas Nuttall's "The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux ..." which serves as a supplement.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Plant Research Library, Agriculture Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1983.

viii, 123 p. : ill., plates ; 26 cm.