(Olmsted Brothers)   PLANT ATLAS. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF NATIVE TREES & SHRUBS OF THE UNITED STATES & CANADA.   Compiled From Manual of Trees, Sargent; - Tenth Census of U.S. Sargent; - Flora of Northwestern America, Thos. Howell; - Flora of Southern U.S.A., W. Chapman; Reports from the Smithsonian Institute; - Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope, A.B. Sudworth; - Flora of the State of Washington C.V. Piper; - Flora of Southeastern U.S., Small; Flora of North America, Gray; Western Botany, Gray & Coulter.       Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects Brookline, Mass. n.d   .          A distribution atlas for American woody plants prepared for use by the Olmsted Brothers office in Brookline Mass. It consists of 326 outline maps of the U.S. on which the distribution range for 354 native trees and shrubs have been colored in by hand. The species name and range limits for each tree are typed in at the top and bottom margins. The first map is a color coded key to all the forest regions of the U.S., while the maps for the individual trees are arranged alphabetically. A card pocket with a library loan card reading "Olmsted Brothers - Office Library" is pasted to the back and the words "Olmsted Brothers" is gilt-embossed at the foot of the spine.   Oblong 4to (27.6 x 37.5 cm); title page carefully penned in ink + 1 page printed text + 326 hand-colored outline maps printed on rectos only.            Bound in contemporary three quarter pigskin over cloth; backstrip split at both sides and very worn, front board nearly detached. $600.00

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