A native of Chicago, DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE came East to study botany at Harvard in 1919. Following his graduation he worked for three years in the Department of Agriculture. Then he began the writing which was to make him one of the most widely read naturalists of our day. In his American Trees of the Northern States and A Natural History of Western Trees he has shown a scholarly understanding and a sympathetic affection for those silent sentinels which are our heritage.
When the Editor of the Atlantic was in Santa Barbara last year, he spent a delightful afternoon in the garden of DONALD CULROSS PEVTTIE listening to Mr. Peat tie’s account of his more famous rosebushes and of others, long planted, which today defy identification. Mr. Pealtie, one of our most articulate naturalists, has recently completed his monumental book, The Natural History of Western Trees, published by Houghton Mifflin.
One of the best loved of American naturalists, DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE will be remembered for his essays on the Elm, the Maple, and the Beech-which later became chapters in his standard work on the trees of eastern North America. From Mr. Peattie’s new book, A Natural History of Western Trees, to be published this month by Houghton Mifflin, we have drawn this portrait of one of the great sentinels of the Northwest.
Author and naturalist, DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE has had the pleasure of collaborating with his son Noel in the preparation of a new volume, A Cup of Sky, to be published by Houghton Mifflin. Mr. Peattie’s share of the booh is exemplified by this deft and observant paper; Noel, still in high school, is a self-taught student of astronomy and he contributes, among other chapters, a cycle of papers on the phases of the moon.
A native of Chicago. DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE came East to study botany at Harvard in 1919. Following his graduation he worked for three years as Assistant Plant Introducer in the Department of Agriculture. Then he began the writing which was to make him one of the most widely read naturalists of our day. For the past year he has been working on his new book, American Trees of the Northern States, of which this is the fourth chapter to appear in preview in the Atlantic. For shaping this particular chapter Mr. Peattie is grateful for the collaboration of a born Vermonter,Thomas Emerson Ripley.
A native of Chicago, DONALD CULROSS PE4TTTEcame East to stndy botany at Harvard in 1919. Following his graduation he worked for three years as Assistant Plant Introducer in the Department of Agriculture. Then he began the writing which was to make him one of the most widely read naturalists of our day. His books, An Almanac for Moderns, Singing in the Wilderness (the life of John James Audubon), Green Laurels, and his autobiography, The Road of a Naturalist, have made him many friends. This, the third chapter to appear in the Atlantic, is taken from his furthcoming book on the Trees of the Northern States.
A native of Chicago, DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE came East to study botany at Harvard in 1919. Following his graduation he worked for three years as Assistant Plant Introducer in the Department of Agriculture. Then he began the writing which was to make him one of the widest read naturalists of our day. His books, An Almanac for Moderns, Singing in the Wilderness (the life of John James Audubon), Green Laurels, and his autobiography, The Road of a Naturalist, have made him many friends. He is now completing American Trees of the Northern States, of which the Atlantic has published two chapters, on the elm and now on the beech.
Author and botanist, DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE is now working on his book, American Trees of the Northern States. “To the tree patriot,”he says, “the arch hero of them all is the American Elm.” In this paper he shows us how deep-rooted the elm is in our history; he locates some of the more famous of the ancient trees which note stretch far beyond New England, and tells of the stories that made them famous; and in his close he reminds us of the fight we now have on our hands to save this noble tree from extinction.