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| Título | Practical forestry: A treatise on the propagation, planting, and cultivation, with a description, and the botanical and popular names of all the indigenous trees of the United States ... |
| Autor | Andrew Samuel Fuller |
| Editor | Orange Judd company, 1910 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 31 Mayo 2007 |
| Largo | 291 páginas |
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