What was eating the ornamental trees and shrubs, drawn and photographed in 1932

A tree or shrub planted for its looks can be damaged by two very different kinds of trouble: insects, and disease. This 1932 guide treats both in one book, so that growers and the people who care for trees for a living can tell what they are looking at and find practical advice. Ephraim Porter Felt, a prominent American entomologist, brought the knowledge of insects, and W. Howard Rankin the expertise in plant disease.

Macmillan published it in New York in its Rural Science Series. The pictures are there to be matched against what a grower sees on a damaged plant, and the text that goes with them is practical. Read now, it is a period handbook of what threatened ornamental plantings and how the specialists of the day described each problem.

This copy is in brown cloth, rubbed and worn at the spine ends. Bookplates of Susanne Massie of Rose Hill and in memory of Edwin Morris Betts, old library numbers and a withdrawal stamp show that it passed through private and institutional libraries. The illustrations are present; it has not been collated.